REESE  LIBRARY 

OF  THK 

i    UNIVERSITY  OF  CALIFORNIA. 


Class  No. 


QUOTATIONS 
FOR   OCCASIONS 


"He  searches  all  the  Records  of  Wit, 
to  compile  a  Breviate  of  them  for  the 
(Jse  of  Players,  Printers,  Booksellers, 
and  Sometimes  Cooks,  [or]  Tobacco- 
Men." — Wycherley,  Love  in  a  Wood, 


COMPILED    BY 

KATHARINE  B.  ^OOD 


NEW  YORK 
THE  CENTURY  CO. 

1903 


fttKSE 


Copyright,  1896, , 
by  The  Century  Co. 


THEDEVlNNBPREdS. 


PREFACE 


THIS  little  book  is  not  put  forth  to  supply 
an  imperative  demand,  but  rather  with  the 
hope  of  creating  one.  So  far  as  is  known  to  the 
writer,  no  such  compilation  is  in  existence,  but 
the  custom  of  using  appropriate  quotations  on 
dinner  menus,  cards,  invitations,  etc.,  is  growing, 
and  of  the  many  who  desire  to  use  such  citations, 
not  all  know  just  where  to  find  them.  This  book 
is  intended  to  lessen  the  labor  of  search,  for  it  is 
nearly  "  as  difficult  to  appropriate  the  thoughts 
of  others  as  it  is  to  invent."  The  reader,  however, 
is  warned  not  to  be  too  sure  that  the  author  of 
any  quotation  had  in  mind  the  subject  to  which 
it  is  applied  here. 


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CONTENTS 


CHAPTER   I 

For  the  Beginning  of  Dinner  Menus, 
Programs,  etc i 

CHAPTER  n 
Dinner  Menus 31 

CHAPTER  HI 

For  Endings  of  Dinner  Menus,  Pro- 
grams, ETC 71 

CHAPTER   IV 
Tobacco  and  Wines 86 

CHAPTER  V 
Toasts no 

CHAPTER  VI 

Miscellaneous:   Bicycle  Meets,  Teas, 
ETC 177 


A   SAMPLE   MENU 


But  hark  I  the  chiming  clocks  to  dinner  call. 

POPE,  Moral  Va»a.jt,  iv. 


MENU 

BLUE   POINTS 

The  firm  Roman  to  great  Egypt  sends 
This  treasure  of  an  oyster. 

Antony  and  Cleopatra,  i,  6. 

• 

CONSOMMfi  LOBSTER  BISQUE 

I  do  perceive  here  a  divided  duty. 

OtheUo,  i.  3. 

• 

RADISHES  CELERY  OLIVES 

Cum  grano  salis. 

• 

SALMON,  WITH   CUCUMBERS 

My  wife  and  I  bought  a  bit  of  salmon  for  8d, 
and  went  to  the  Sun  Taveme  and  eat  it. 

PEPYS,  DiAry. 

• 

SWEETBREAD   PAt£s  GREEN   PEAS 

Not  to  knoiv  m.e  argues  yourselves  unknowfi. 

MILTON-,  Paradiie  Loit.  iv. 

Hovj  green  you  are  and  fresh. 

King  John,  iii,  4. 

• 

ASPARAGUS 
Have  you  this  Spring  eaten  any  asparagus  yet? 

BROME,  The  'Sparague  Garden,  il,  2. 

• 

FILET   OF  BEEF  MUSHROOM  SAUCE 

Our  old  and  faithful  friend,  we  are  glad  to  see  you. 

Measiu«  for  Measure,  r,  L 


A  SAMPLE  MENU  — Continued 


SORBET 


To  give  satiety  afresh  appetite. 

Othello,  ii,  1. 


REDHEAD  DUCKS  LETTUCE  SALAD 

Let 's  carve  him  as  a  dish  fit  for  the  gods. 
Not  hew  him  as  a  carcass. 

Juliai  Ciwar,  U,  1. 

Let  onion  atoms  lurk  within  the  bowl 
A  nd,  half  suspected,  animate  the  whole. 

SYDNEY  SMITH. 


NEAPOLITAN  ICE  CREAM 


A  ny  pretty  little  tiny  kick- 
shaws, tell  William  cook. 

2  Henry  IV,  T,  1. 


ROQUEFORT  BRIE 

Pray  does  anybody  here  hate  cheese  > 
I  would  be  glad  of  a  bit. 

SWrFT,  PoUte  Conrenatloni,  U. 

• 

FRUIT 

Give  cherries  at  time  of  year  or  apricots  ;  and  say  they  were  sent 
you  out  of  the  country  though  you  bought  them  in  Cheapside! 

B.  JONSON,  Silent  Woman,  it,  1. 


COFFEE 
/  have  not  slept  one  wink  ! 

Cymbeline,  lU,  4. 


LIQUEURS 
Which  draught  to  me  were  cordial. 

Winter'.  Tale,  i,  3. 


Serenely  full,  the  epicure  would  say, 
'Fate  cannot  harm  me, — /  have  dined  to-day." 

SYDNEY  SMITH. 


**Next  to  the  originator  of  a  good 
sentence,  is  the  first  quoter  of  it'' 

Emerson. 


i:  ^'A// 


QUOTATIONS    FOR    OCCASIONS 

Chapter  I 

FOR  THE   BEGINNING  OF 
DINNER   MENUS,  PROGRAMS,  ETC. 


My  way  is  to  begin  with  the  beginning.  DinnerMenus. 

Byron,  Don  Juan,  i,  7, 

If  before  repast  it  shall  please  you  to  gratify 
the  table  with  a  grace.  love's  labour's  lost,  iv,  2. 

Balm    of  hurt    minds,    great    nature's    second 

course. 
Chief  nourisher  in  life's  feast.  Macbeth,  a,  2. 

''^"^"Now  good  digestion  wait  on  appetite, 

And  health  on  both.  Macbeth,  iii,  4. 

A  solemn  sacrifice  performed  in  state. 

Pope,  Moral  Essays,  iv. 

Now  and  then  your  men  of  wit 
Will  condescend  to  take  a  bit. 

Swift,  Cadenus  and  Vanessa. 
I  1 


2  QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS 

DinnerMenus.  gut  j^ark!  the  chlming  clocks  to  dinner  call. 

Pope,  Moral  Essays,  iv. 

Th'  unknowing  man 
Eats  only  flesh,  the  understanding  valour : 
His  ignorance  i'  th'  mystery  keeps  him  coward. 
To  hi7n  'tis  but  a  meal;  X.o  you  'tis  virtue. 

W.  Cartwright,  The  Ordinary,  ii,  i. 

The  sauce  to  meat  is  ceremony; 

Meeting  were  bare  without  it.  Macbeth,  m,  4. 

To  thee  and  thy  company  I  bid  a  hearty  wel- 
come. Tempest,  v,  i. 

Welcome,  my  friends  all!  Tempest,  v,i. 

At    dinner-time,    I    pray    you,   have    in    mind 

where  we  must  meet.  merchant  of  Venice,  i,  I. 

Bid  your  friends  welcome,  show  a  merry  cheer. 

Merchant  of  Venice,  iii,  2. 

Feast  with  the  best,  and  welcome  to  my  house. 

Taming  of  the  Shrew,  v,  2. 

What  better  or  properer  can  we  call  our  own 
than  the  riches  of  our  friends  ?  timon  of  Athens,  i,  2. 

What,  do  we  meet  together? 
Ay,  and  I   think  one  business  doth  command 

us  all.       '  Timon  of  Athens,  iii,  4. 

You  that  way,  and  you  this,  but  two  in  com- 
pany. Timon  of  Athens,  v,  i. 

Within  this  hour  it  will  be  dinner  time. 

Comedy  of  Errors,  i,  2. 


QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS  3 

We'll  bring  your  friends  and  ours  to  this  large  Dinner  Menus. 

dinner: 
It  works  the  better  eaten  before  witness. 

IV.  Cart-wright,  The  Ordinary,  ii,  i. 

Sancho.  The  cooks  are  hard  at  work,  Sir,  chop- 
ping Herbs,  and  mincing  Meats,  and  breaking 
Marrow-bones. 

Carlos.     And  is  it  thus  at  every  dinner? 

Sancho.  No,  Sir,  but  we  have  high  doings  to- 
day. Gibber,  Love  Makes  a  Man,  ii. 

I  had  a  good  dinner  for  them,  as  a  venison 
pasty  and  some  fowl,  and  after  dinner  we  did 

play.  Pepys,  Diary,  Nov.  15,  1667. 

My  wife  had  got  ready  a  very  fine  dinner — viz: 
a  dish  of  marrow-bones  ;  a  leg  of  mutton ;  a  loin 
of  veal ;  a  dish  of  fowl ;  three  pullets  and  two 
dozen  of  larks  all  in  a  dish ;  a  great  tart,  a 
neat's    tongue,  a  dish    of  anchovies,  a  dish  of 

prawns  and  cheese.  Pe^ys,  diary,  Jan.  26, 1660. 

# 

Must  we  all  march  ? 

Yea,  two  and  two,  Newgate  fashion,   i  henry  iv.iii,  3. 

Are  these  things  then  necessities  ? 
Then  let  us  meet  them  like  necessities. 

II  Henry  IV,  iii,  i. 

Epicurean  cooks 
Sharpen  with  cloyless  sauce  his  appetite. 

Antony  and  Cleopatra,  ii,  1. 

Good  my  friends,  consider 
You  are  my  guests.  king  lear,  iii,  7. 


4  QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS 

Dinner  Menus.  Cloy  the  hungry  edge  of  appetite 

By  bare  imagination  of  a  feast,   king  Richard  ii,  i,  3, 

Being  no  further  enemy  to  you 
Than  the  constraint  of  hospitable  zeal. 

King  John,  ii,  i. 

The  glory  of  the  kitchen  !  that  holds  cookery 
A  trade  from  Adam,  quotes  his  broths  and  sal- 
lads, 
And  swears  he  is  not  dead  yet  but  translated 
In  some  immortal  crust,  the  paste  of  almonds  ! 

B.  Jonson,  The  Staple  of  News,  iii,  i. 

My  meat  shall  all  come  in  in  Indian  shells, 

Dishes  of  agate  set  in  gold,  and  studded 

With  emeralds,  sapphires,  hyacinths  and  rubies. 

B.  Jonson,  The  Alchemist,  ii. 

And  now  let 's  go  hand  in  hand,  not  one  before 
another.  comedy  of  errors,  v,  i. 

The  appurtenance  of  welcome  is  fashion  and 
ceremony.  hamlet,  ii,  2. 

Most  welcome ! 
Be  sprightly,  for  you  fall  'mongst  friends. 

Cymbeline,  iii,  6. 

Sit  down  and  feed  and  welcome  to  our  table. 

As  You  Like  It,  ii,  7. 

Bid  them  cover  the  table,  serve  in  the  meat. 

Merchant  of  Venice,  iii,  5. 

Why  dost  thou  whet  thy  knife  so  earnestly  ? 

Merchant  of  Venice,  iv,  i. 

It  blesseth  him  that  gives  and  him  that  takes. 

Merchant  of  Venice,  iv,  i. 

Such  and  so  various  are  the  tastes  of  men. 

A  kenside.  Pleasures  of  the  Imagination,  iii. 


QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS  5 

Some  ...  are  to  be  tasted,  others  to  be  swal-  Dinner  Menus, 
lowed  and  some  to  be  chewed  and  digested. 

Bacon,  Essays  (Studies). 

Cookery  is  become  an  art,  a  noble  science. 

Burton,  Anatomy  of  Melancholy,  i. 

The  footman,  in  his  usual  phrase. 
Comes  up  with  *'Madam,  dinner  stays." 

Swift,  A  Modern  Lady. 

You  are  very  welcome  to  our  house : 

It  must  appear  in  other  ways  than  words. 

Merchant  of  Venice,  v,  i. 

Is  't  near  dinner-time  ?     I  would  it  were. 

Two  Gentlemen  of  Verona,  i,  2. 

A  man  is  .  .  .  nev^r  welcome  to  a  place  till 
.  .   .  the  hostess  say ''Welcome!" 

Two  Gentlemen  of  Verona,  ii,  3. 

Those  palates  who  .  .   . 

Must  have  inventions  to  delight  the  taste. 

Pericles,  i,  4. 

You  are  passing  welcome 
And  so  I  pray  you  all  to  think  yourselves. 

Taming  of  the  Shrew,  ii,  i. 

It  is  a  hard  matter  for  friends  to  meet;  but 
mountains  may  be  removed  with  earthquakes 
and  so  encounter.  As  You  likb  it,  iii,  2. 

This  so  noble  and  so  fair  assembly 

This  night  to  meet  here.  henry  viii,  i,  4. 

This  is  the  period  of  my  ambition:    O  this 

blessed    hour!  Merry  wives  of  Windsor,  iii,  3. 

A  good  digestion  to  you  all;  and  once  more 
I  shower  a  welcome  on  ye !  Henry  viii,  \,  4. 


QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS 


Dinner  Menus.  j^e  would  have  all  as  merry  as,  first, 

Good  company,  good  wine,  good  welcome. 
Can  make  good  people.  henry  viii,i,4. 


Small  Dinner.    \Ye  '11  keep  no  great  ado,  a  friend  or  two. 

Romeo  and  Juliet,  iii,  4. 

We  '11  have  some  half  a  dozen  friends 

And  there  an  end.  romeo  and  juuet,  ui,  4. 

^  Small  cheer  and  great  welcome  makes  a  merry 

least.  Comedy  of  Errors,  iii,  i. 

The  dinner  attends  you,  sir, 

Merry  Wives  of  Windsor,  i,  i. 

I  had  an  extraordinary  good  dinner,  and  the 
better  because  dressed  by  my  own  servants,  and 
were  mighty  merry.  /'^/j/j,diary,  March 23, 1660. 

I  did  give  him  a  bottle  of  wine,  and  was  exceed- 
ingly satisfied  of  the  power  that  I  have  to  make 
my  friends  welcome.  Pe/ys,  diary,  March  31, 1660. 

What  neat  repast  shall  feast  us,  light  and  choice, 

Of  Attic  taste?  MiUon,llo  Mr.  Lawrence. 

No  variety  here. 
But   you,   most   noble   guests,   whose   gracious 

looks 
Must  make  a  dish  or  two  become  a  feast. 

W.  Cartwright,  The  Ordinary,  iii,  4. 

The  true  essentials  of  a  feast  are  only  fun  and 

feed.  O.  W.  Holmes,  Nux  Postccenatica. 


QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS 


He  says  he  '11  come ;  how  shall  I  feast  him  ?  Smaii  Dinner. 

Twelfth  Night,  iii,  4. 

Come,  let  us  four  to  dinner.  i  henry  vi,  u,  4. 

Why  muse  you,  sir?  't  is  dinner  time. 

Two  Gentlemen  of  Verona,  ii,  i. 

With  a  few  friends,  and  a  few  dishes  dine, 
And  much  of  mirth  and  moderate  wine. 

Cowley,  Liberty. 

Then  scorn  a  homely  dinner  if  you  can. 

Pope,  Satires,  ii,  12. 

Come,  let  's  fall  to;  and,  gentle  girl,  eat  this.  ^*ne"* 

Here  is  no  drink.  Titus  andronicus,  iii,  2. 

Here  's  that  which  is  too  weak  to  be  a  sinner, — 
honest  water  which  ne'er  left  man  i'  the  mire. 

TiMON  OF  Athens,  i,  2. 

Some  food  we  had  and  some  fresh  water. 

Tempest,  i,  2. 

Men  really  know  not  what  good  water  *s  worth. 

^ Byron,  Don  Juan,  i,  i. 

For  in  my  youth  I  never  did  apply 
Hot.  and  rebellious  liquors  in  my  blood. 

As  You  Like  It,  ii,  3. 

And  drink,  of  Adam's  ale.  Prior,  wandering  pilgrims. 

Though  we  eat  little  flesh  and  drink  no  wine, 
Yet  let  's  be  merry:  we  '11  have  tea  and  toast; 
Custards  for  supper,  and  an  endless  host 
Of  syllabubs  and  jellies  and  mince-pies, 
And  other  such  ladylike  luxuries. 

Shelley,  Letter  to  M.  G. 


Without 
Wine. 


S  QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS 

Give  me  the  spring,  which  does  to  human  use 
Safe,  easy,  and  untroubled  stores  produce. 

Cowley,  Avarice. 

I  deal  with  water  and  not  with  wine. 
Give  me  my  tankard  then. 

B.  Jonson,  Every  Man  in  his  Humor,  i,  3. 

A  health  to  dear  woman !     She  bids  us  untwine, 
From  the  cup  it  encircles,  the  fast-clinging  vine. 

O.  W.  Holmes,  Song  for  a  Temperance  Dinner. 

Even  cold  Cochituate  every  heart  shall  warm, 
And  genial  Nature  still  defy  reform ! 

O.  W.  Holmes,  A  Sentiment. 


Lemonade. 


Have  you  sent  to  the  apothecary  for  a  sufficient 
quantity  of  cream  of  tartar  to  make  lemonade  ? 
You  know  I  die  if  I  have  not  everything  in  the 

highest  style.  Colman  (the  Elder),  Man  and  Wife,  iii. 


Men's  Dinner.  Hungry  as  the  sea,  and  can  digest  as  much. 

Twelfth  Night,  ii,  4. 

I  pray  you  jest,  sir,  as  you  sit  at  dinner. 

Comedy  of  Errors,  i,  2. 

And  carouse  together  like  friends  long  lost. 

Antony  and  Cleopatra,  iv,  12. 

Take  them  to  the  buttery,  and  give  them  friend- 
ly welcome  every  one.  taming  of  the  shrew,  induction. 

Take  the  goods  the  gods  provide  thee. 

Dryden,  Alexander's  Feast,  v. 

The  best  attendance ;  the  best  drink ;   some- 
times two  glasses  of  Canary  and  pay  nothing ! 

B.  Jonson,  The  Alchpmist,  iii,  2. 


QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS 


The  devil  is  in  you  if  you  cannot  dine !  ^^"'^  Dinner. 

Poj>e,  Imitations  of  Horace,  ii,  2. 

Judicious  drank,  and  greatly  daring  din'd. 

Pope,  DuNCiAD,  iv. 

Well,  he  was  an  ingenious  man  that  first  found 
out  eatijig  and  drinking,  swi/t,  polite  conversations,  u. 

That  all-softening,  overpowering  knell, 
The  tocsin  of  the  soul — the  dinner  bell. 

Byron,  Don  Juan,  v. 

Since  Eve  ate  apples  much  depends  on  dinner. 

Byron,  Don  Juan,  xiii. 

As  much  valor  is  to  be  found  in  feasting  as  in 

ngnting.  Burton,  Anatomy  of  Melancholy,  i. 

It  is  a  condition  which  confronts  us — not  a  theory. 

Grover  Cleveland. 

I  Speak  this  in  hunger  for  bread,  not  in  thirst 
for  revenge.  Coriolanus,  i,  x. 

Almost  spent  with  hunger.  cymbeline,  m,  6. 

Give  them  life  whom  hunger  starved  half  dead. 

Pericles,  i,  4. 

Prepare  for  dinner.     That  is  done,  sir;  they 

have  all  stomachs.  merchant  of  Venice,  iii,  5. 

Compelled  by  hunger  and  lack  of  other  means. 

Henry  VIH,  i,  2. 

How,  i'  the  name  of  thrift,  does  he  rake  this 
together.  henry  viii,  lu,  2. 

A  dinner  lubricates  business.  Lord  stoweii. 


iO  .       QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS 

Men's  Dinner.    God  scnds  meat  and  the  Devil  sends  cooks. 

John  Taylor,  (1630). 

0  hour  of  all  hours  the  most  bless'd  upon  earth, 
Blessed  hour  of  our  dinner  ! 

Owen  Meredith,  Lucile,  i,  2. 

Where  is  the  man  that  can  live  without  dining  ? 

Owen  Meredith,  Lucile,  i,  2. 

But  if  you  have  a  stomach,  to  't  i'  God's  name. 

Taming  of  the  Shrew,  i,  2. 

Do  as  adversaries  in  law,  strive  mightily,  but 
eat  and  drink  as  friends.       taming  of  the  shrew,  i,  2. 

1  hope  we  shall  drink  down  all  unkindness. 

Merry  Wives  of  Windsor,  i,  i. 

Better  three  hours  too  soon  than  a  minute  too 

•^^^^*  Merry  Wives  of  Windsor,  ii,  2. 

I  have  good  cheer  at  home;  and  I  pray  you  all 

go  with  me.  Merry  wives  of  Windsor,  iii,  2. 

Well !  I  promised  you  a  dinner ! 

Merry  Wives  of  Windsor,  iii,  3. 

Liquor  likewise  will  I  give  to  thee, 

And  friendship  shall  combine  and  brotherhood.    ^ 

Henry  V,  ii,  i. 

Hunger  is  sharper  than  the  sword. 

Beaumont  and  Fletcher,  Honest  Man's  Fortune. 

He  which  hath  no  stomach  to  this  fight. 

Let  him  depart.  henry  v,  iv,  3, 

Live  while  you  live,  the  epicure  would  say, 
And  seize  the  pleasures  of  the  present  day. 

Doddridge,  Epigram. 


QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS      *  11 

Who  scorns  it  starves  deservedly  at  home.  ^^^^'s  Dinner. 

Cowper,  Task,  i. 

My  Lord,  will  you  walk?  dinner  is  ready. 

Much  Ado  about  Nothing,  ii,  3. 

He  's  safe  for  these  three  hours  !  tempest,  iii,  i. 

Welcome;  fall  to.  As  You  like  It,  h,  7. 

Masters,  spread  yourselves. 

Midsummer  Night's  Dream,  i,  2. 

The  feast  smells  well.  coriolanus,  iv,  5. 

Yourself  shall  feast  with  us  before  you  go. 

Troilus  and  Cressida,  i,  3. 

'T  is  now  upon  the  point  of  dinner  time. 

Beaumont  and  Fletcher,  The  Woman  Hater,  iii,  3. 

Room  !  Make  way  !  Hunger  commands;  my 
valour  must  obey. 

Beaumont  and  Fletcher,  The  Woman  Hater,  iii,  3. 

These  reasons  made  his  mouth  to  water. 

Butler,  HuDiBRAS,  i,  3. 

My  teeth 
Are  on  an  edge  till  I  do  eat ;  now  will 
I  cozen  all  men  without  opposition, 
Ifeel  mystrength  increase  with  very  thought  on't. 

W.  Cartwright,  The  Ordinary,  ii,  i. 

But  civilized  man  cannot  live  without  cooks. 

Owen  Meredith,  Lucile,  i,  2. 

Give  us  the  luxuries  of  life,  and  we  will  dispense 

with  its  necessaries.  John  Lothrop  Motley. 

No  other  terms  than  unconditional  and  immed- 
iate surrender.  I  propose  to  move  immediately 
upon  your  works  !  u.  s.  Grant. 


12  QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS 


Men's  Dinner.    Obliged  by  hunger  and  request  of  friends. 

A  Po^e,  Prologue  to  Satires. 

What  an  excellent  thing  did  God  bestow  upon 
man  when  he  gave  him  a  good  stomach. 

Beaumont  and  Fletcher,  The  Woman  Hater,  i,  2. 

The  nature  of  his  spirit  asketh  meat : 

He  hath  a  wolf  in 's  breast;  food  must  appease 

him.  W,  Cartwrighi,  The  Ordinary,  iii,  5. 

The  empty  spit 
Ne'er  cherished  wit : 
Minerva  loves  the  larder. 

W.  Cartwright,  The  Ordinary,  iii,  5. 

B^e^akfl"?         '^^^  ^^^^  to-day  stand  friendly  !  juuus  c^sar,  v,  i. 
And  then  to  .breakfast,  with  what  appetite  you 

have.  Henry  VIII,  iii,  2. 

Go  with  me 
To  bless  this  twain  that  they  may  prosperous  be. 

Tempest,  iv,  i. 

Now  all  the  blessings  of  a  glad  father  compass 
thee  about !  tempest,  v,  i. 

You  will  hardly  suffer  before  Twelve  a' Clock, 
neither — aye,  just  about  Twelve  you'll  be  turn'd 

oil.  Gibber,  Love  Makes  a  Man,  v. 

Wedding  is  destiny  and  hanging  likewise. 

Heywood,  Proverbs,  i,  3. 

Look  down,  you  gods, 

And  on  this  couple  drop  a  blessed  crown ! 

Tempest,  v,  i. 


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Gentlemen,  forward  to  the  bridal  dinner.  B^lakfL^t. 

Taming  of  the  Shrew,  iii,  2. 

Now  am  I  seated  as  my  soul  delights. 

Ill  Henry  VI,  v,  7. 

I  have  arrived  at  the  last 

Unto  the  wished  haven  of  my  bliss. 

Taming  of  the  Shrew,  v,  1. 

Shall  I  never  see  a  bachelor  of  three-score 
again  ?  much  ado,  i,  i. 

Her  birth,  her  beauty,  crowds  and  courts  confess ; 
Chaste  matrons  praise  her,  and   grave  bishops 

bless.  Pope,  Epilogue  to  Satires,  i. 

But  blest  with  her,  't  is  spring  throughout  the 

year  !  Pope,  spring,  i,  84. 

You  come  most  carefully  upon   your   hour. — 

'T  is  now  struck  twelve.  Hamlet,  i,  I. 

What  hour  now  ?  —  I  think  it  lacks  of  twelve.  — 
No,  it  is  struck.  hamlet,  i,  4. 

Which  I  will  fashion  to  fall  out  between  twelve 

and  one.  Othello,  iv,  2. 

They  present  her  with  wedding-gifts  and  offer- 
ings of  consecrated  wild  rice.  ■ 

Kalidasa,  Sakoontala,  or  the  Lost  Ring. 

Procure  the  vicar 
To  stay  for  me  at  church  twixt  twelve  and  one. 

Merry  Wives  of  Windsor,  iv,  6. 

The  clock  hath  stricken  twelve  upon  the  bell ; 
My  mistress  made  it  one  upon  my  cheek. 

Comedy  of  Errors,  i,  1, 


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Breakfast  When  I  said  I  would  die  a  bachelor,  I  did  not 

think  I  should  live  till  I  were  married. 

Much  Ado,  ii,  3. 

.  Let 's  have  no  more  fooling  about  it,  but  give 

me  your  blessing.  merchant  of  Venice,  ii,  2. 

Having  such  a  blessing  in  his  lady, 

He  finds  the  joys  of  Heaven  here  on  earth. 

Merchant  of  Venice,  iii,  5. 

To  wear  a  crown 
Within  whose  circuit  is  Elysium 
And  all  that  Poets  feign  of  bliss  and  joy. 

Ill  Henry  VI,  i,  2. 

Masquers  to  revel  it  with  him  and  his  new  bride. 

Ill  Henry  VI,  iii,  3. 

Is  the  single  man  therefore  blessed  ? 

JN  O  !  As  You  Like  It,  iii,  3. 

God  bless  my  ladies  !  Are  they  all  in  love  ? 

Love's  Labour's  Lost,  ii,  1 ; 

Joy,  gentle  friends,  joy  and  fresh  days  of  love 
Accompany  your  hearts !  midsummer  night's  dream,  v,  i. 


Fortheheadof       Now  this  overdone  or  come  tardy  off,  though 

Program  or  .  ,  ,  i-trii  1  1  1 

Announce-        it  make  thc  unskilful  laugh,  cannot   but  make 

ment  of  Enter-    .  i_      •     j  •    •  • 

tainment.  the  JudlClOUS  griCVC.  Hamlet,  iii.  2. 

There  are  the  players. 

Gentlemen,  you  are  welcome  to  Elsinore. 

Hamlet,  ii,  2. 

They  're  welcome  all ;  let  'em  have  kind  admit- 
tance.    Music  make  their  welcome  ! 

Timon  of  Athens,  i,  2. 


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Sit  down;  RoJSfJ?n^/°^ 

.       -  ,  -  ,        ,  '  ,  Program  or 

At  first  and  last  the  hearty  welcome.  Announce- 

"^  . .  ment  of  Enter- 

Macbeth,  iil,  4.        tainment. 

Read  these  instructive  leaves,  p^/^.  epistle  to  jervas. 
There  was  all  the  world  and  his  wife. 

Swift,  Polite  Conversations. 

Welcome  the  coming  .   .  .  guest. 

Pope,  Odyssey,  xv. 

What  think  you,  sirs,  of  killing  Time  ? 

Cowper,  Beau's  Reply. 

I  am  but  a  gatherer  and  disposer  of  other  men's 

stuff.  Sir  H.  JPi?/f/b«,  Architecture  (Preface), 

Don't  never  prophesy  onless  you  know ! 

Lowell,  BiGLow  Papers. 

Make  the  coming  hour  o'erflow  with  joy. 
And  pleasure  drown  the  brim.         all's  well,  h,  4. 

I  warrant  thee,  Claudio,  the  time  shall  not  go 

dully  by  us.  Much  Ado,  ii.  i. 

The  hour  's  now  come ; 

The  very  minute  bids  thee  ope  thine  ear. 

Tempest,  i,  2. 

That  noble  lady 
Or  gentleman  that  is  not  freely  merry. 
Is  not  my  friend.  henry  viii,  i,  4. 

Receive  'em  nobly  and  conduct  'em  into  our 
presence.  henry  viii,  i,  4. 

And  once  more  I  shower  a  welcome  on  ye,  wel- 
come all  !  Henry  VIII,  i,  4. 


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p?og?am1f/°^       There  *s  other  of  our  friends  will  greet  us  here 

meSt  of  Enter-    ^^^^'  Measure  for  Measure,  iv,  5. 

tainment. 

Welcome  ever  smiles, 
And  farewell  goes  out  sighing. 

Troilus  and  Cressida,  iii,  3. 

Ye  're  welcome  all.    A  hundred  thousand  wel- 
comes, CORIOLANUS,  ii,  I. 

Put  on 

Your  boldest  suit  of  mirth,  for  we  have  friends 
That  purpose  merriment.       merchant  of  Venice,  ii,  2. 

Pray  you,  bid  these  unknown  friends  to's  wel- 
come. Winter's  Tale,  iv,  4. 

Give  them  friendly  welcome  every  one ; 

Let  them  want  nothing,  taming  of  the  Shrew,  induction. 

Then  follow  me  and  give  me  audience,  friends. 

Julius  C^sar,  iii,  2. 

All  my  skill  shall  beg  but  honest  laughter. 

Randolph,  Aristippus. 


^°pfoJJam?''^        Whilst  I  sit  meditating  on  that  celestial  har- 
mony I  go  to.  Henry  VIII,  iv,  2. 

May  bring  his  plain-song  and  have  an  hour  of 
hearing.  henry  viii,  i,  3. 

You  hear  her?  Or  is  this  the  play 

Of  fond  illusion  ?  Hark  I  Horace,  Odes,  iii,  4. 


QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS  IJ 

And  certain  stars  shot  madly  from  their  spheres    ^°pfo^am?^ 
To  hear  the  sea-maid's  music. 

Midsummer  Night's  Dream,  ii,  i. 

But  that  which  did  please  me  beyond  anything 
in  the  whole  world  was  the  wind-musick  .  .  . 
which  is  so  sweet  that  it  ravished  me,  and  indeed 
in  a  word,  did  wrap  up  my  soul  so  that  made  me 
really  sick,  just  as  I  have  formerly  been  when  in 
love  with  my  wife !  Pepys,  diary,  Feb.  27, 1668. 

Sir  Gilb.  In  earnest,  does  this  Puppy  really  pre- 
tend to  sing  ? 

Fran.  Much  as  he  pretends  to  Wit,  Sir,  he  can 
make  a  noise  at  least. 

Sir  Gilb.  But  the  whelp  has  no  voice. 

Fran.  O  Sir,  that's  out  of  fashion;  your  best 
masters  seldom  have  any. 

Cibber,  The  Refusal,  iv. 

Charlotte.  The  Cantata,  dear  Mr.  Witling,  the 
Cantata.  .  .  . 

Witling.  Immediately,  Madam,  but  all  things  in 
order ;  first  give  me  leave  to  regale  the  good 
Company  with  a  small  Crash  of  Instrumental. 

Cibber,  The  Refusal,  iv. 

Music  hath  charms  to  soothe  the  savage  breast. 
To  soften  rocks,  or  bend  a  knotted  oak. 

Congreve,  Mourning  Bride,  i,  i. 

Such  sweet  compulsion  doth  in  music  lie. 

Milton,  Arcades. 

In  what  key  shall  a  man  take  you  to  go  in  the 

song  ?  Much  Ado,  i,  i. 

Then  go  we  near  her,  that  her  ear  lose  nothing. 

2  Much  Ado,  iii,  i. 


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^°Pr^o^am!^^    What  harmony  IS  this?    My  good  friends,  hark ! 

Tempest,  iii,  3. 

Friends,    Romans,    countrymen,  lend  me  your 
ears.  juuus  c^sar,  iii,  2. 

Bid  me  discourse,  I  will  enchant  thine  ear. 

Shakspere,  Venus  and  Adonis. 

We  did  keep  time,  sir,  in  our  catches. 

Twelfth  Night,  ii,  3. 

Untwisting  all  the  chains  that  tie 
The  hidden  soul  of  harmony. 

Milton,  L' Allegro. 

And  ever,  against  eating  cares, 
Lap  me  in  soft  Lydian  airs,. 
Married  to  immortal  verse, 
Such  as  the  meeting  soul  may  pierce. 
In  notes  with  many  a  winding  bout 
Of  linked  sweetness  long  drawn  out. 

Milton,  L' Allegro. 

Who,  as  they  sung,  would  take  the  prison'd  soul 
And  lap  it  in  Elysium.  Muton,  comus. 

I  was  all  ear, 
And  took  in  strains  that  might  create  a  soul 
Under  the  ribs  of  death.  Muton,  comus. 

No  season  now  for  calm  familiar  talk. 

Pope,  Iliad,  xxii. 

Chromatic  tortures  soon  shall  drive  them  hence. 

Pope,  DuNCiAD,  iv. 

Music  her  soft,  assuasive  voice  applies. 

Pope,  St.  Cecilia's  Day. 

TV;;^^  elaborately  thrown  away.  k^«^,  The  last  day,  i.  ^ 


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I  have  a  little  studied  physic ;  but  now,  I  *m  all  ^°prograSf  ^ 
for  music  ...  as  Plato  holds  your  music  and  so 
does  wise  Pythagoras,  I  take  it  is  your  true  rap- 
ture. B.  Jonson,  Volpone,  iii,  2. 

They  held  opinion  that  the  sweetness  of  music 
did  recreate  the  spirits,  and  the  heart  did  under- 
take to  love.  Sir  Anionie  0/  Guevara,  Familiar  Epistles. 


What  dances  shall  we  have 

To  wear  away  this  long  age  of  three  hours  ? 

Midsummer  Night's  Dream,  v,  i. 

Which  of  you  all 
Will  now  deny  to  dance  ?  She  that  makes  dainty. 
She,  I  '11  swear,  hath  corns.        romeo  and  Juliet,  i,  5. 

What  a  sweep  of  vanity  comes  this  way  !  They 

dance  !  Timon  of  Athens,  i,  i. 

She  sings  like  one  immortal,  and  she  dances 

As  goddess-like.  Pericles,  v(Gower). 

Our  dance  of  custom  ...  let  us  not  forget. 

Merry  Wives  of  Windsor,  v,  5. 

Therefore  put  you  in  your  best  array ! 

As  You  Like  It,  v,  2. 

Since  things  in  motion  sooner  catch  the  eye 
Than  what  not  stirs.  troilus  and  cressida,  iii,  3. 

Come,  lady,  come.     Farewell,  my  friend. 

Winter's  Tale,  iv,  4. 

The  grass  stoops  not,  she  treads  on  it  so  light. 

Shakspere,  Venus  and  Adonis. 


Dances. 


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Dances.  J  'H  charm  the  air  to  give  a  sound, 

While  you  perform  your  antic  round. 

Macbeth,  iv,  i. 

He  capers,  he  dances,  he  has  eyes  of  youth. 

Merry  Wives  of  Windsor,  iii,  2. 

Revels,  dances,  masks  and  merry  hours 
Forerun  fair  Love.  love's  labour's  lost,  iv,  3. 

When  you  do  dance,  I  wish  you 
A  wave  o'  the  sea,  that  you  might  ever  do 
Nothing  but  that.  winter's  tale,  Iv,  4. 

And  here  I  danced  with  them  and  had  a  good 
supper,  and  as  merry  as  I  could  be. 

Pepys,  Diary,  Oct.  31.  1667. 

Come  and  trip  it  as  you  go 

On  the  light  fantastic  toe.  i»////^«,  l 'Allegro. 

But  oh,  she  dances  such  a  way  ! 
No  sun  upon  an  Easter-day 

Is  half  so  fine  a  sight.  SuckUng,  a  wedding. 

What  a  confederacy  of  folly 's  here. 

B.  Jonson,  Time  Vindicated. 

Masked  Ball.     Who  comcs  SO  fast  in  silence  of  the  night  ? 
A  friend. 
A  friend  !  what  friend  ?   your  name  I  pray  you, 

iriend  ?  Merchant  of  Venice,  v,  i. 

Pray  you,  bid  these  unknown  friends  to's  wel- 
come. Winter's  Tale,  iv,  4. 

The  gallants  shall  be  tasked. 

For,  ladies,  we  will  every  one  be  masked. 

Love's  Labour's  Lost,  v,  2. 


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Fair  ladies  mask'd  are  roses  in  their  bud.  Masked  Bail. 

Love's  Labour's  Lost,  v,  2. 

These  happy  masks  that  kiss  fair  ladies'  brows. 

Romeo  and  Juliet,  i,  i. 

There  are  certain  ladies  most  desirous  of  admit- 
tance.      Ladies  !  Timon  of  Athens,  i,  2. 

Let  's  go  dress  him  like  the  witch  of  Brentford. 

Merry  Wives  of  Windsor,  iv,  2. 

Some  of  all  professions  that  go  the  primrose 
way  to  the  everlasting  bonfire.  Macbeth,  a,  2.  ^ 

I  *11  go  buy  them  vizards.  Merry  wives  of  Windsor,  iv,  4. 

Idiots,  eremites  and  friars, 
White,  black  and  gray,  with  all  their  trumpery. 

Milton,  Paradise  Lost,  iii. 

I  do  know  him  by  his  gait :  he  is  a  friend. 

Julius  C^sar,  i,  3. 

Soft !  Who  comes  here  ?  A  friend  of  Antony's. 

Julius  C^sar,  iii,  i. 

Study  me  how  to  please  the  eye  indeed. 

Love's  Labour's  Lost,  i,  i. 

These  are  Women,  are  they  not  ? 

Wycherley,  Love  in  a  Wood,  ii. 

Full  oft  we  see 
Cold  Wisdom  waiting  on  superfluous  Folly. 

All  's  Well,  i,  i. 

Who  are  you  ?  do  you  know  me  ? 
Who  are  yoti  ?  don't  you  know  me  ? 

Wycherley t  Love  in  a  Wood,  ii. 


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QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS 


Miscellaneous.  What  things  have  we  seen 

Done  at  the  Mermaid !   heard  words  that  have 

been 
So  nimble,  and  so  full  of  subtile  flame, 
As  if  that  every  one  from  whence  they  came 
Had  meant  to  put  his  whole  wit  in  a  jest. 
And  resolved  to  Hve  a  fool  the  rest 

Of  his  dull  life.  Beaumont,  To  B.  Jonson. 

Every  room 
Hath  blazed  with  lights  and  bray'd  with 

minstrelsy.  Timon  of  Athens,  H,  2. 

Fleet  the  time  carelessly  as  they  did  in  the 

golden  world.  As  You  Like  It,  i,  i. 

A  very  merry,  dancing,  drinking, 
Laughing,  quaffing  and  unthinking  time. 

Dryden,  Secular  Masque. 

I  staid  up  till  the  bell-man  came  by  with  his 
bell,  just  under  my  window  as  I  was  writing  of 
this  very  line,  and  cried,  "  Past  one  o'  the  clock, 
and  a  cold,  frosty,  windy  morning." 

Pepys,  Diary,  Jan.  i6,  1660. 

Suppers.  This  night  he  makes  a  supper,  and  a  great  one, 

To  many  lords  and  ladies.  henry  viii,  i,  3. 

Lead  in  your  ladies  every  one. 
Sweet  partner,  I  must  not  yet  forsake  you. 

Henry  VIII,  i,  4. 

Come,  be  every  one  officious 

To  make  this  banquet.  titus  andronicus,  v,  2. 

'T  will  be  supper  time  ere  you  come  there. 

Taming  of  the  Shrew,  iv,  3. 


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Put  on  manly  readiness  Suppers. 

And  meet  i'  the  hall  together.  Macbeth,  a,  3. 

This  night  I  hold  an  old  accustom'd  feast. 

Romeo  and  Juliet,  i,  2. 

Have  broiled  bones  and  kidneys  brought  in  on  a 

tray.  Barkam,  Ingoldsby  Legends  (Black  Mousquetaire). 

We  *11  have  a  dozen  of  bones  well  charg'd  with 

marrow.  W.  Cartwrigkt,  The  Ordinary,  ii,  i. 

Better  late  than  never.  Heywood,  Proverbs. 

Here  we  had  a  most  neat  little  but  costly  and 
genteel  supper,  and  after  that  a  great  deal  of  im- 
pertinent mirth  by  Mr.  Davis,  and  some  catches, 
and  so  broke  up.  Pepys,  diary,  jan.  29, 1661. 

Who  feasts  his  muse  with  claret,  wine  and  oys- 
ters. B.  Jonson,  Time  Vindicated. 

Although  the  cheer  be  poor 

'T  will  fill  your  stomachs.  Titus  andronicus,  v,  3. 

Our  stomachs  will  make  what 's  homely  savoury. 

Cymbeline,  iii,  6. 

And  men  sit  down  to  that  nourishment  which  is 
called  supper.  love's  labour's  lost,  i,  i. 

Dost  thou  think  because  thou  art  virtuous  there 
shall  be  no  more  cakes  and  ale  ? 

Twelfth  Night,  ii,  3. 

Did  you  not  know,  then,  to-day  Lucullus  sups 

with  Lucullus  ?  Plutarch,  Life  of  Lucullus. 


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FOR    INTERMISSIONS,    SPECIAL    SONGS,  ETC. 

^"duriig  a°°         Companions  that  do  converse  and  waste  the 

Concert.  time  together.  merchant  of  Venice,  iii,  4. 

I  am  never  merry  when  I  hear  sweet  music. 

Merchant  of  Venice,  v.  i. 

Why  should  a  man  whose  blood  is  warm  within, 
Sit  like  his  grandsire  cut  in  alabaster  ? 

Merchant  of  Venice,  i,  1. 

Our  hour  is  fully  out.     Come  on,  then. 

Antony  and  Cleopatra,  iv,  9. 

In  the  moment  of  our  talking,  envious  time  has 

ebb'd  away.  Horace,  Odes,  i,  11  (Conington). 

With  thee  conversing  I  forget  all  time. 

Milton,  Paradise  Lost,  iv. 

The  windy  satisfaction  of  the  tongue. 

Pope,  Odyssey,  iv. 

Now  turn  to  different  sports.  Po^e,  dunciad,  ii. 

Let  'S  talk,  my  friends.  Pope,  Satires,  ii. 

If  music  be  the  food  of  love,  play  on. 

Twelfth  Night,  i,  i. 

That  strain  again !    It  had  a  dying  fall. 

Twelfth  Night,  i,  i. 

Mercy  on  me  !  I  have  a  great  dispositions  to  cry. 

Merry  Wives  op  Windsor,  iii,  i. 

If  you  have  a  friend  here,  convey,  convey  him 

out  !  Merry  Wives  of  Windsor,  iii,  3. 

But,  gentle  heavens,  cut  short  all  intermission. 

Macbeth,  iv,  3. 


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Merely  to  come  in,  sir,  they  go  out !  '"dSirin^^a  " 

Pope,  Epilogue  to  Satires,  ii.  Concert. 

Go  on,  obliging  creatures.       Pope,  prologue  to  Satires. 

"  Pray  Heaven  it  last !  "  (cries  Swift)  **  as  you 

go  on . "  Pope,  Satires,  ii. 

I  will  not  have  excuse,  with  saying  *'  This 
Loud  music  is  too  harsh  for  ladies'  heads." 

Pericles,  ii,  3. 

Go  to  a  gossips'  feast,  and  go  with  me. 

Comedy  of  Errors,  v,  x. 

You  do  not  give  the  cheer :  the  feast  is  sold 
That  is  not  often  vouch'd  while  'tis  a-making. 

Macbeth,  iii,  4. 

All  things  come  round  to  him  who  will  but  wait. 

Longfellow,  Student's  Tale. 

I  have  an  exposition  of  sleep  come  upon  me. 

Midsummer  Night's  Dream,  iv,  i. 


Your  grace,  I  fear,  with  dancing  is  a  little  heated.  ^^"""2  »  ^a"- 

Henry  VIII,  i,  4. 

While  her  grace  sat  down  to  rest  a  while. 

Henry  VIII,  iv,  x. 

If  you  deny  to  dance,  let  's  hold  more  chat. 

Love's  Labour's  Lost,  v,  2. 

You  will  catch  cold  and  curse  me. 

TrOILUS  and  CrESSIDA,  IV,  2. 

This  is  the  tune  of  our  catch,  played  by  the        so^ngV'ltc. 
picture  of  Nobody.  tempest,  iii,  2. 


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sfn|sj^\c.        -^"^  ^^^  ^^^  therefore  my  good  friends  be  grieved ! 

Julius  Caesar,  i,  2. 

Shall  we  rouse  the  night-owl  in  a  catch  that  will 
draw  three  souls  out  of  one  weaver  ? 

Twelfth  Night,  ii,  3. 

Let 's  hear.    It  is  a  madrigal ;  I  affect  that  kind 

of  poem  much.  B.  Jonson,  the  Staple  of  News,  iv,  i. 

Upon  my  Life,  Madam,  I  have  no  more  voice 
than  a  Kettle  Drum;  besides,  this  is  for  a  Treble 
•and  out  of  my  Compass.  abber,  the  refusal,  iv. 

Save  thee,  friend,  and  thy  music;  dost  thou  live 

by  thy  tabor?  Twelfth  Night,  iii,  i. 

I  would  I  were  invisible  to  catch  the  strong  fel- 
low by  the  leg.  As  You  Like  It,  i,  2. 

Will  you  sing? 
More  at  your  request  than  to  please  myself. 

As  You  Like  It,  ii,  5. 

My  voice  is  ragged;  I  know  I  cannot  please  you. 
I  do  not  desire  you  to  please  me,  I  do  desire 

you  to  sing.  As  You  Like  It,  ii,  5. 

Where  every  something,  being  blent  together. 

Turns  to  a  wild  of  nothing,     merchant  of  Venice,  iii,  2. 

An  excellent  musician,  and  her  hair  shall  be  of 
what  color  it  please  God.  Much  ado,  ii,  3. 

They  do  no  more  adhere  and  keep  place  to- 
gether than  the  Hundredth  Psalm  to  the  tune  of 

GreensleeveS.  Merry  wives  of  Windsor,  ii,  I. 


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Ceremoniously  let  us  prepare  ^°LadSs^* 

Some  welcome  for  the  mistress  of  the  house.  ^^^^-ri^^te')'^®' 

Merchant  of  Venice,  v.  i. 

Most  dearly  welcome!      And  your  fair  princess 
— goddess !  winter's  tale,  v,  i. 

"Therefore  take  heed  what  guests  you  receive: 
receive/'  says  he,  "no  swaggering  companions." 

II  Henry  IV,  ii,  4. 

Nay,  ladies,  fear  not; 

By  all  the  laws  of  war  you  're  privileged. 

Henry  VIII,  i,  4. 

This  is  good  news;  I  will  go  meet  the  ladies. 

CORIOLANUS,  V,  4. 

Cry  "Welcome,  Ladies,  Welcome ! 
Welcome,  Ladies,  Welcome ! "  coriolanus,  v,  5. 

Ladies,  there  is  an  idle  banquet  attends  you: 
please  you  to  dispose  yourselves. 

TiMON  OF  Athens,  i,  2. 

Fair  Ladies,  you  drop  manna  in  the  way 

Of  starved  people.  merchant  of  Venice,  v,  i. 

And  sweetened  every  musk-rose  of  the  dale. 

Milton,  CoMUs. 

Ladies  whose  bright  eyes 
Rain  influence,  and  judge  the  prize. 

Milton,  L' Allegro. 

To  kill  those  foes  to  Fair  ones,  Time  and  Thought. 

Pope,  Moral  Essays,  ii. 

And  when  a  lady  's  in  the  case 
You  know  all  other  things  give  place. 

Gay,  The  Hare. 


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To^^ecdve        At  length  burst  in  the  argent  revelry, 
^^^Tol^ts.f'^^'       With  plume,  tiara,  and  all  rich  array. 

Keats,  St.  Agnes'  Eve. 

And  take  a  lodging  fit  to  entertain 

Such  friends.  taming  of  the  Shrew,  i,  i. 

Good  hearts,  what  ado  here  is  to  bring  you 

together  !  merry  wives  of  Windsor,  iv,  5. 

Now,  my  fair'st  friend, 
I  would  I  had  some  flowers  o'  the  spring  that 

might 
Become  your  time  of  day.  winter's  tale,  iv,  4. 

Ladies,  a  general  welcome  from  his  grace 
Salutes  ye  all.  henry  viii,  i,  4. 

You  're  welcome,  my  fair  guests,     henry  viii,  i,  4. 

Sweet  ladies,  will  it  please  you  sit  ? 

Henry  VIII,  i,  4. 

Two  women  placed  together  makes  cold  weather. 

Henry  VIII,  i,  4. 

Madam  and  Mistress,  a  thousand  good-morrows. 

Two  Gentlemen  of  Verona,  ii,  i. 

To  bring  in — God  shield  us! — a  lion  among 
ladies,  is  a  most  dreadful  thing. 

Midsummer  Night's  Dream,  iii,  i. 

O,  these  are  barren  tasks,  too  hard  to  keep. 
Not  to  see  ladies !  love's  labour's  lost,  i,  i. 

Crave  leave  to  view  these  ladies  and  entreat 
An  hour  of  revels  with  'em.  henry  viii,  i,  4. 


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When  was  the  hour  '^l^dies!'' 

I  ever  contradicted  your  desire  ?  ^^^^xi'^te!?*' 

Henry  VIII,  ii,  4. 

Ladies,  you  are  not  merry  :  gentlemen, 
Whose  fault  is  this  ?  henry  viii,  i,  4. 

A  day  in  April  never  came  so  sweet ! 

Merchant  of  Venice,  n,  9. 

I  will  tell  you  the  beginning,  and  if  it  please 
your  ladyships  you  may  see  the  end. 

As  You  Like  It,  i,  2. 

You  have  .  .  .  fair  ladies, 
Set  a  fair  fashion  on  our  entertainment, 
Which  was  not  half  so  beautiful  and  kind. 

TiMON  OF  Athens,  i,  2. 

To  ask  and  have,  command  and  be  obeyed. 

Marlowe,  Tamburlaine,  iv,  3. 

Angels  are  painted  fair  to  look  like  you. 

Otway,  Venice  Preserved,  i,  i. 

A  bevy  of  fair  women.  Muton,  paradise  lost,  xL 

You  shall  have  no  cause      fid  oth?r 
To  curse  the  fair  proceedings  of  this  day.  Anniversaries. 

King  John,  iii,  i. 

The  day 
For  whose  returns,  and  many,  all  these  pray  ; 

Andsodol.  B.  Jonson,  Underwoods. 

What  hath  this  day  deserved  ?  What  hath  it  done, 
That  it  in  golden  letters  should  be  set 
Among  the  high  tides  in  the  calendar  ? 

King  John,  iii,  i. 

To  solemnize  this  day  the  glorious  sun 

Stays  in  his  course.  king  John,  iii,  i. 


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S?otlfe^      The  yearly  course  that  brings  this  day  about 

Anniversaries.    Shall  Uever  SeC  it  but  a  holiday.  king  John,  iii,  I. 

And  send  him  many  years  of  sunshine  days  ! 

Richard  II,  iv,  i. 

This  day  shall  change  all  griefs  and  quarrels 
into  love.  henry  v,  v,  2. 

Expect  St.  Martin's  summer,  halcyon  days. 

I  Henry  VI,  i,  2. 

This  day  is  ours  as  many  more  shall  be. 

I  Henry  VI,  i,  5. 

And  more  such  days  as  these  to  us  befall ! 

II  Henry  VI,  v,  3. 

Heaven  give  you  many,  many  merry  days  ! 

Merry  Wives  of  Windsor,  v,  5. 

It  is  my  birthday  : 

I  had  thought  to  have  held  it  poor. 

Antony  and  Cleopatra,  iii,  13. 

Oh  !  be  thou  blest  with  all  that  Heaven  can  send, 
Long  health,  long  youth,  long  pleasure — and 
a  friend.  pope,  to  — . 


Chapter  II 
DINNER  MENUS 

HORS  d'CEUVRES 

Cum  grano  sails. 

A  brittle  glory. 

And  hid  his  crisp  head. 


Richard  II,  Iv,  i. 
I  Henry  IV,  i,  3. 


Why  dost  thou  shun  the  salt?    Byron,  Thvl  Corsmr,  u. 

We  have  some  salt  of  our  youth  in  us. 

Merry  Wives  of  Windsor,  ii,  3. 

The  salt  in  them  is  hot.  king  John,  v,  7. 


A  thirsty  evil. 


Measure  for  Measure,  i,  2. 


Some  relish  of  the  saltness  of  time. 


Celery. 


Salted 
Almonds. 


II  Hbnrv  IV,  i,  2. 


Caviare  to  the  general. 


Hamlet,  ii,  a. 


To  feed  on  caviare  and  eat  anchovies. 

Randolph,  Muse's  Looking-Glass. 
'   31 


Caviare. 


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Caviare. 


Give  US  a  taste  of  your  quality. 


Hamlet,  ii,  2. 


Antiquity  puts  off  his  cap,  and  makes  a  bare 
oration  in  praise  of  the  virtues  of  it. 

Dekker,  Gull's  Hornbook. 

Do  you  like  the  taste  ?  i  henry  vi,  ui,  2. 


Pickles. 


Of  such  vinegar  aspect,  that  they  '11  not  show 
their  teeth  in  way  of  smile. 

Merchant  of  Venice,  i,  i. 

Enticing  walnuts,  I  have  known  ye  well 
In  youth,  when  pickles  were  a  passing  pain. 

Bayard  Taylor,  Echo  Club. 

My  lord,  I  hope  you  are  pepper-proof 

Swift,  Polite  Conversations,  ii. 

Balm'd  and  entreasured  with  full  bags  of  spices. 

Pericles,  iii,  2. 

Stewed  in  brine,  smarting  in  lingering  pickle. 

Antony  and  Cleopatra,  ii,  5. 

*T  is  the  sour  sauce  to  the  sweet  meat. 

Dryden,  To  Etheredge. 


Pickled 
Onions. 


To  drain  upon  his  face  an  ocean  of  salt  tears. 

II  Henry  VI,  iii,  2. 

Those  eyes  of  thine  from  mine  have  drawn  salt 

tears.  Richard  IU,  i,  2. 


Horseradish. 


*T  is  not  right 
To  think  that  only  toothsome  which  can  bite. 

Edward  Hide  to  T,  Randolph. 

Some  of  us  will  smart  for  it. 

Much  Ado  about  Nothing,  v,  L 


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Very  wisely  threat  before  you  sting. 

Julius  C^ssar,  v,  i. 

How  sharper  than  a  serpent's  tooth  it  is ! 

King  Lear,  i,  4. 

Thy  Sting  is  not  so  sharp, 
As  friend  remember'd  not.  as  you  like  it,  «,  ^. 


Horseradish. 


You  are  a  little — 
By  your  good  favor,  too  sharp.       henry  viii,  v,  3. 


She  had  a  tongue  with  a  tang. 


Tempest,  ii,  2. 


In  the  morning  at  a  breakfast  of  Radyshes  at 
the  Purser's  cabin.  pepys,  diary.  May  2, 1660. 


Radishes. 


That  little  baggage,  Summer's  daughter  Plenty, 
crying  six  bunches  of  radysh  for  a  penny. 

Dekker  and  Ford,  Sun's  Darling,  iii,  3. 

Generally,  men  ought  to  find  the  difference  be- 
tween saltness  and  bitterness.      Bacon,  of  discourse. 


Chosen  olives  ripe.  /r^rac*?,  country  life. 

I  have  gained  my  experience.     As  You  like  it,  iv,  i. 
An  olive,  capers,  or  some  better  salad. 

B.  Jonson,  Epigrams,  ci. 

She  is  drowned  already,  sir,  with  salt  water. 

Twelfth  Night,  ii,  1. 

The  superfluous,  a  very  necessary  thing. 

Voltaire. 


Olives. 


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OYSTERS  OR  CLAMS 

o?  asfms.  '^^^  ^^"^  Roman  to  great  Egypt  sends 

This  treasure  of  an  oyster. 

Antony  and  Cleopatra,  i,  5.  ■ 

Canst  tell  how  an  oyster  makes  his  shell  ?  — 
No. — Nor  I  neither.  king  lear,  i,  5. 

The  world  's  mine  oyster, 
Which  I  with  sword  will  open. 

Merry  Wives  of  Windsor,  ii,  2. 

Love  may  transform  me  to  an  oyster,  but  I  '11 
take  my  oath  on  it  till  he  /tave  made  an  oyster  of 
me,  he  shall  never  make  me  such  a  fool. 

Much  Ado  about  Nothing,  ii,  3. 

A  dozen  of  divine  points. 

B.  Jotison,  Bartholomew  Fair,  ii,  1. 

They  cannot  commit  treason,  nor  be  outlawed 
nor  excommunicate,  for  they  have  no  souls. 

Sir  E.  Coke,  Case  of  Sutton's  Hospital. 

Fruit  of  the  wave  !     Oh  dainty  and  delicious  ! 

IV.  A.  Croffut. 

Shall  be  steeped  in  his  own  salt  tear. 

Tennyson,  War-Song. 

Have  left  me  naked  to  mine  enemies. 

Henry  VIII,  iii,  2. 

She  makes  hungry  where  most  she  satisfies. 

Antony  and  Cleopatra,  ii,  2. 

Drenched  in  the  sea,  hold,  notwithstanding, 
their  freshness.  tempest,  ii,  i. 

Mine  honest  friends,  I  turn  you  not  away. 

Antony  and  Cleopatra,  iv,  2." 


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How  now,  my  friend  !  why  dost  thou  look  so  ofcSms 

pale  ?  Taming  of  the  Shrew,  ii,  i. 

A  very  gentle  beast  and  of  a  good  conscience. 

Midsummer  Night's  Dream,  v,  i. 

A  kind  of  excellent  dumb  discourse. 

Tempest,  iii,  3. 

Did  therewith  bury  in  oblivion. 

IV.  Browne,  Britannia's  Pastorals,  iu 

Whom  sea-green  Sirens  from  the  rocks  lament. 

Dryden,  Annus  Mirabilis. 

I  '11  be  with  you  in  the  squeezing  of  a  lemon. 

Goldsmith,  She  Stoops  to  Conquer,  i. 

The  oyster  fresh  from  Lucrine's  mirrored  lake. 

Horace,  Country  Life. 

In  naked  beauty  more  adorned, 
More  lovely  than  Pandora. 

Milton,  Paradise  Lost,  iv,  714. 

Them  fully  satisfy'd,  and  thee  appease ! 

Milton,  Paradise  Lost,  x,  79. 

There,  take  ...  ye  each  a  shell ;  .   .  . 

T  was  a  fat  oyster, —  live  in  peace  —  adieu  ! 

Pope  (  From  Boileau,  Ep.  ii.). 

The  first  in  glory,  as  the  first  in  place. 

Pope,  Iliad,  xi,  441. 
I   '11  go  his  halves.  Rabelais. 

Prithee,  why  so  pale  ?  SuckUng,  Song. 

Even  an  oyster  may  be  crossed  in  love. 

Sheridan,  The  Critic,  iii,  i. 

He  was  a  bold  man  that  first  eat  an  oyster. 

Swift,  Polite  Conversations,  i. 


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o?  cfam^s  Ladies  and  Gentlemen,  will  you  eat  any  oysters 

before  dinner  ?  Swift,  poute  conversations,  u. 

Into  the  jaws  of  death. 

Tennyson,  Charge  of  the  Light  Brigade. 

I  saw  him  now  going  the  way  of  all  flesh. 

Webster,  Westward  Hoe,  ii,  2. 
SOUP 

Soup.  J  smell  it !  Upon  my  life  it  will  do  well. 

I  Henry  IV,  i,  3. 

A  delicate  odor 

As  ever  hit  my  nostril.  Pericles,  iii,  2. 

First  catch  your  clams  :  along  the  ebbing  edges 
Of  saline  coves  you  '11  find  the  precious  wedges. 

W.  A.  Croffut,  Clam  Soup. 

A  savor  that  may  strike  the  dullest  nostril. 

Winter's  Tale,  i,  2. 

A  hot  friend  cooling !  juuus  c^sar,  iv,  2. 

Stealing  and  giving  odor !  twelfth  night,  i,  i. 

Sabean  odors  from  the  spicy  shore 

Of  Araby  the  Blest.  MUton,  paradise  Lost,  iv,  163. 

The  Frenchman's  darling.  Cowper,  the  task,  iv. 

I  will  eat  these  broths  with  spoons  of  amber, 
Headed  with  diamond  and  carbuncle. 

B.  Jonson,  The  Alchemist,  ii. 

Muse,  sing  the  man  that  did  to  Paris  go, 

That  he  might  taste  their  soups,  and  mushrooms 

know.  W.  King,  Art  of  Cookery. 


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37 


Love  me  little  love  me  long. 


Marlowe^  1-e.v}  of  Malta,  iv. 


Soup. 


A  mixture  of  a  lie  doth  ever  add  pleasure. 

Bacon,  Of  Truth. 

Like,  but  oh  how  different. 

Wordsworth,  Mountain  Echo. 


Mock  Turtle 
Soup. 


Welcome  the  wine,  whate'er  the  seal  is ; 
And  sit  you  down  and  say  your  grace 
With  thankful  heart,  whate'er  the  meal  is. 
Here  comes  the  smoking  Bouillabaisse. 

Thackeray,  The  Ballad  of  Bouillabaisse. 

This  Bouillabaisse  a  noble  dish  is, 
A  sort  of  soup  or  broth  or  brew. 
Or  hotchpotch  of  all  sorts  of  fishes, 
That  Greenwich  never  could  outdo. 

Thackeray,  The  Ballad  of  Bouillabaisse. 

Under  which  king,  Bezonian  ?  speak,  or  die ! 

II  Henry  IV,  v,  3. 

I  do  perceive  here  a  divided  duty.       othello,  i,  3. 
And  if  it  please  you,  so ;  if  not,  why  so. 

Two  Gentlemen  of  Verona,  ii,  i. 

Study  what  you  most  affect. 

Taming  of  the  Shrew,  i,  i. 

Much  may  be  said  on  both  sides. 

Addison,  Spectator,  no.  122. 

Of  two  evils,  the  less  is  always  to  be  chosen. 

Thomas  A  Kempis. 


Bouillabaisse. 


A  choice  of  two 
Soups. 


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FISH,  INCLUDING  CRABS,  TERRAPIN,  TURTLE,  ETC. 

Fish.  Lest  men  suspect  your  tale  untrue, 

Keep  probability  in  view! 

Gay,  The  Painter  Who  Pleased  Nobody  and  Everybody. 

Some  hour  before  you  took  me  from  the  breach 
of  the  sea.  twelfth  night,  u,  i. 

From  the  rude  sea's  enraged  and  foamy  mouth. 

Twelfth  Night,  v,  i. 

How  brooks  your  grace  the  air, 
After  your  late  tossing  on  the  breaking  seas? 

Richard  II,  iii,  2. 

Fish  for  fasting-days,  and  moreo'er  puddings 
and  flap-jacks.  pericles,  ii,  i. 

Thy  blood  is  cold ; 
Thou  hast  no  speculation  in  those  eyes 

Which  thou  dost  glare  with !  Macbeth,  iu,  4. 

Eat  of  the  fish.  hamlet,  iv,  3. 

My  music  playing  far  ofif,  I  will  betray 

Tawny-finn'd  fishes.  Antony  and  Cleopatra,  ii,  5. 

I  shall  no  more  to  sea,  to  sea, 

Here  shall  I  die  ashore  !  tempest,  ii,  2. 

'T  is  very  fresh  and  sweet,  sir. 
The  fish  was  taken  but  this  night. 

Beaumont  and  Fletcher,  Woman  Hater,  i,  2. 

The  choice  virgin  head  of  a  dear  fish,  yet  pure 
and  undeflowered. 

Beaumont  and  Fletcher,  Woman  Hater,  i,  3. 


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Some  choice  sous'd  fish  brought  couchant  in  a  ^^^^' 

dish, 
Among  some  fennel,     jv.  Cartwright,  the  ordinary,  ii,  2. 

Well  knowing  him  a  sacred  thing. 

Cowpert  Beau's  Reply,  17. 

The  carp  is  stately,  a  good,  and  a  subtle  fish. 

Walton,  Complete  Angler,  viii. 

The  luce  is  the  fi-esh  fish. 

Merry  Wives  of  Windsor,  i,  i. 

We  will  eat  our  mullets 
Soused  in  high-country  wines. 

B.  Jonson,  The  Alchemist,  iii. 

So  into  London  by  water,  and  in  Fish  Street  my 
wife  and  I  bought  a  bit  of  Salmon  for  8d.  and 
went  to  the  Sun  Taverne  and  eat  it. 

Pepys,  Diary,  March  15,  1660. 


This  is  no  fish,  but  an  islander,  that  hath  lately      ^  ve^y  large 
suffered  by  a  thunderbolt.  tempest,  ii,  2. 

The  Ancient  Mariner.  CoUridge.  a 

For  flying  at  the  brook,  I  saw  not  better  sport  Trout, 

these  seven  years'  day.  11  henry  vi,  ii,  i. 

Swift  trouts  diversified  with  crimson  stains. 

Pope,  Windsor  Forest. 

This  dish  of  meat  is  too  good  for  any  but  anglers 
or  very  honest  men.  waiton,  complete  angler. 


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Trout. 


Whitebait. 


Thistroutlooks  lovely,  it  was  twenty- two  inches 
when  it  was  taken,  and  the  belly  of  it  look'd,  some 
part  of  it,  as  yellow  as  a  Marygold,  and  part  of 
it  as  white  as  a  Lily,  and  yet  methinks  it  looks 
better  in  this  good  sauce.       waiton,  completb  angler. 

Viat.     On  my  word,  Master,  this    is  a  gallant 

Trout;  what  shall  we  do  with  him? 
Pise.     Marry,  e'en  eat  him  to  supper. 

Walton,  Complete  Angler. 

Thin  airy  shoals  of  visionary  ghosts. 

Pope,  Odyssey,  xi,  48. 

Their  fluid  bodies  half  dissolved  in  light. 

Pope,  Rape  of  the  Lock,  ii. 

Many-headed  multitude.  coriolanus,  ii,  3. 


Eels. 


We  had  three  eeles  that  my  wife  and  I  bought 
this  morning  of  a  man  that  cried  them  about, 

for  our  dinner.  /'ir/:j/j,DiARY,  December  15,1660. 

Eels  a  many 

I  've  ate;  but  any 

So  good  ne'er  tasted  before! 

Barham,  Ingoldsby  Legends. 

If  you  chance  to  be  partial  to  eels. 
Then, — crede    experto, — trust    one    who    has 

tried, — 
Have  them  spitch-cocked,  or  stewed, — they  're 

too  oily  when  fried  ! 

Barham,  Ingoldsby  Legends. 


Lobsters. 


To  the  fishmongers  and  bought  a  couple  of  lob- 
sters and  over  to  the  'Sparagus  garden. 

Pepys,  Diary,  April  22,  1668. 


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And  drank,  and  ate  a  lobster,  and  sang  and 
mighty  merry.  Pepys,  diary,  April  23, 1668. 

One  foot  in  sea  and  one  on  shore,     much  ado,  u,  3. 

We  '11  have  a  swashing  and  a  martial  outside, 
As  many  other  mannish  cowards  have. 

As  You  Like  It,  i,  3. 

To  the  Rhenish  winehouse  at  the  Steelyard,  and 
there  eat  a  couple  of  lobsters  and  some  prawns, 
and  pretty  merry.  Pepys,  diary.  May  2, 1665. 

A  most  delicate  monster !  tempest,  ii,  2. 

The  imperious  seas  breed  monsters. 

Cymbeline,  iv,  2. 

God  defend  the  lute  should  be  like  the  case. 

Much  Ado,  ii,  i. 


Lobsters. 


If,  like  a  crab,  you  could  go  backward. 

Hamlet,  Ii,  z. 

Like  the  watermen  that  row  one  way  and  look 

another.         Burton,  Anatomy  of  Melancholy,  To  the  Reader, 

On  eight  long  feet  the  wondrous  warriors  tread ; 
And  either  end  alike  supplies  a  head. 

T.  Parnell,  Tr.  of  Homer. 

These  mortal  wits  to  call  them  Crabs  agree, 
The  Gods  have  other  names  for  things  than  we. 

T.  Parnell,  Tr.  of  Homer. 

Our  shrimps  to  swim  again,  as  when  they  lived, 
In  a  rare  butter  made  of  dolphin's  milk, 
Whose  cream  does  look  like  opals. 

B.  Jonson,  The  Alchemist,  iv. 


Crabs. 


Shrimps. 


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Terrapin.  Can  wc  therefore  surfeit  on  this  delicate  ambrosia ? 

Dekker,  Gull's  Hornbook. 

Had  in  him  those  brave  translunary  things, 

That  the  first  poets  had.  Drayton,  of  Marlowe. 


There 's  no  meat  Hke  'em. 


[^TiMON  OF  Athens,  i,  2. 


Turtle. 


Who  ever  loved  that  loved  not  at  first  sight  ? 

Marlowe,  Hero  and  Leander. 

Infinite  riches  in  a  little  room. 

Marlowe,  Jew  of  Malta,  i. 

With  spots  quadrangular  of  diamond  form. 

Cowper,  The  Task,  iv. 

Bright  as  young  diamonds  in  their  infant  dew. 

Dryden,  Conquest  of  Granada,  ii,  3. 

And  they  say  they  're  half  fish,  half  flesh. 

Pericles,  ii,  i. 

A  snapper-up  of  unconsidered  trifles. 

Winter's  Tale,  iv,  3. 

They  would  melt  me  out  of  my  fat  drop  by  drop. 

Merry  Wives  of  Windsor,  iv,  5. 

Of  what  complexion  ? 

Of  the  sea- water  green,  sir. 

Love's  Labour's  Lost,  i,  2. 


FOR    ENTREES    OR    CHAFING-DISH    PREPARATIONS 

Entries.  Our  intent  was  at  this  time  to  move  inward  de- 

light. 

Beaumont  and  Fletcher,  Prol.  to  Knight  of  the  Burning  Pestle. 


That  I  should  live  so  long 
And  ignorant  of  such  wealth  as  this. 

Randolph,  Jealous  Lovers. 


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A  morsel  for  a  monarch.       Antony  and  Cleopatra,  i,  5.  Entries. 

A  dish  that  I  do  love  to  feed  upon. 

Taming  of  the  Shrew,  iv,  3. 

A  genial  savour 
Of  certain  stews  and  roast- meats  and  pilaus. 

Byron,  Don  Juan,  v. 

When  I  have  tasted  of  this  sacred  dish, 
Then  shall  my  bones  rest  in  my  father's  tomb 

In  peace.  Beaumont  and  Fletcher,  Woman  Hater,  i,  3. 

The  fortuitous  or  casual  concourse  of  atoms. 

Richard  Bentley,  Sermons,  vii. 

Who  pepper'd  the  highest  was  surest  to  please. 

Goldsmith,  Retaliation. 

I  was  at  an  olla  podrida  of  his  making, 
Was  a  brave  piece  of  cookery. 

B.  Jonson,  Staple  of  News,  iii,  i. 

Take  every  creature  in  of  every  kind. 

Pope,  Essay  on  Man,  iv. 

Thank  me  for  this,  more  than  for  all  the  favors, 
Which  all  too  much  I  have  bestowed  on  thee. 

Two  Gentlemen  of  Verona,  iii,  i. 

Perdition  catch  my  soul 
But  I  do  love  thee  !  othello,  iii,  3. 

I  love  that,  though  I  hate  it,  and  I  have 
A  kind  of  disagreeing  consent  to  't. 

W.  Cariwright,  The  Ordinary,  iii,  5. 

All  flesh  is  nothing  in  his  sight ! 

Beeves,  at  his  touch,  at  once  to  jelly  turn. 

Pope,  Dunciad,  iv. 

Thy  truffles,  Perigord  !  thy  hams,  Bayonne  ! 

Pope,  Dunciad,  iv. 


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Entrfees.  Not  to  know  me  argues  yourselves  unknown. 

Milton,  Paradise  Lost,  iv. 

^hfovfTuesday.)    Making  of  thiugs  ready  for  fritters. 

Pepys,  Diary,  February  26,  1661. 

One  good  turn  asketh  another. 

Hey  wood,  Proverbs,  i,  11. 
Chafing-dish.      Taste  of  it  first !  Richard  II,  V,  5. 

Alone  I  did  it.  coriolakus,  v,  6. 

If  it  were  done  when  't  is  done  then  't  were  well 
It  were  done  quickly.  Macbeth,  i,  7. 

It  is  better  to  be  out  of  the  world  than  out  of 

the  fashion.  Swiji,  polite  conversations,  ii. 

.    With  all  appliances  and  means  to  boot. 

II  Henry  IV,  iii,  i. 

How  many  things  by  season  season'd  are 
To  their  right  praise  and  true  perfection! 

Merchant  of  Venice,  v,  i. 

Some  nice  ragout  or  charming  fricassee. 

W.  King,  Art  of  Cookery. 

Deviled  Bones.   Gashcd  with  honorable  scars. 

J.  Montgomery,  Battle  of  Alexandria. 

Deviled  chicken  and  buttered  toast. 

Disraeli,  Coningsby,  iv. 

The  mustard  is  too  hot  a  little. 

Taming  of  the  Shrew,  iv,  3. 

Cold  Dishes,     And  we  meet  with  champagne  and  a  chicken  at 

etc,  Lunches.  -  i.     c 

last.  Lady  M.  W.  Montague,  The  Lover. 


QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS  45 


A  cup  of  Madeira,  and  a  cold  capon's  leg.  euIfL^Ss. 

I  Henry  IV,  i,  2. 

Here  's  a  dish  I  love  not. 
I  cannot  endure  my  Lady  Tongue. 

Much  Ado,  ii,  i. 

With  dainty  chicken,  snow-white  bread. 

W.  M.  W.  Call,  Summer  Days. 

Take  a  dejeune  of  muskadel  and  eggs. 

B.  Jonson,  The  New  Inn,  iii,  i. 

Foster'd  with  cold  dishes.  cymbeline,  u,  3. 

There  is  cold  meat  i'  the  cave; 

We  '11  browse  on  that.  Cymbeune,  m,  6. 

We  sport  in  water  or  we  dance  on  land.  Frog's  Legs. 

T.  Parnell,  Tr.  of  Homer. 

The  bones  of  a  green  frog  too,  wondrous  precious. 

Middleton,  The  Witch,  i,  2. 

Though  this  may  be  play  to  you, 

'T  is  death  to  us.  Roger U Estrange,^ ksus-zi^Z. 

The  earth  hath  bubbles  as  the  water  has,  soufflss. 

And  these  are  of  them.  Macbeth,  i,  3. 

With  what  a  shifting  gale  your  course  you  ply. 
Forever  sunk  too  low,  or  borne  too  high. 

Pope,  Imitations  of  Horace,  ii. 

Nor  swell  too  high  nor  sink  too  low.     Pope,  odes,  i. 
She  formed  this  image  of  well-bodied  air. 

Pope,  Dunciad,  ii,  42. 

Spreads  and  swells  in  pufif'd  prosperity. 

Pope,  Imitations  of  Horace,  ii. 


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soufflfes.  j^w  at  once  and  nothing  first 

Just  as  bubbles  do  when  they  burst. 

O.  W.  Holmes,  Onh-Hoss  Shay. 

Slight  and  puff'd  souls,  that  walk  like  shadows  by, 
Leaving  no  print  of  what  they  are. 

Beaumont  and  Fletcher,  Wit  Without  Money. 

Swear  by  the  ocean's  feathery  froth,  for  that 
Is  not  so  light  a  substance. 

T.  B.  A  Idrich,  Set  of  Turquoise. 

patfe  de  Enlarged  him  and  made  a  friend  of  him. 

foie  gras.  *=» 

I  Henry  IV,  iii,  2. 

What  is  loathsome  to  the  young 
Savours  well  to  thee  and  me. 

Tennyson,  Vision  of  Sin. 

We  fat  all  creatures  else,  to  fat  us.      hamlet,  iv,  3. 
^B?ans.^  Hail  wedded  nourishment ! 

Bayard  Taylor,  Paradise  Discovered. 

The  beans  and  bacon  set  before  'em. 

Pope,  Imitations  of  Horace,  ii. 

Pasties,  etc.  Come,  you  have  kept  a  corner  of  your  stomach 

for  a  piece  of  venison  pasty! 

Swift,  Polite  Conversations,  ii. 

We  have  a  hot  venison  pasty  to  dinner;  come, 

gentlemen.  Merry  wives  of  Windsor,  I,  i. 

An  hundred  souls  of  turkeys  in  a  pie. 

Pope,  Dunciad,  iv,  294. 

We  must  have  there 
Some  fort  to  scale;  a  venison  pasty  doth  it. 
You  may  have  other  pyes  instead  of  outworks. 

W.  Cartwright,  The  Ordinary,  ii,  i. 


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47 


Grouse  pie,  with  hare 

In  the  middle,  is  fare. 
Which,  duly  concocted  with  science  and  care, 
Dr.  Kitchener  says  is  beyond  all  compare. 

Barham.  Ingoldsby  Legends. 

And  so  sepulchred  in  such  pomp  dost  lie. 
That  kings  for  such  a  tomb  would  wish  to  die. 

Milton,  Epitaph  on  Shakspere. 


Pasties,  etc. 


Let  hunger  move  thy  appetyte  and  not  savory 

sauces.  Babees  book. 


Sauces. 


Change  is  the  sauce  that  sharpens  appetite. 

Dekker  and  Ford,  Sun's  Darling,  ii,  i. 

It  provoketh   a   fine  appetite   if  sauce  your 
meat  be  by.  Babees  book. 

The  sauce  is  costly  for  it  far  exceeds  the  cates. 

Greene,  Never  too  Late. 

A  most  sharp  sauce. — And  is  it  not  well  served 
in  to  a  sweet  goose  ?  romeo  and  juuet,  u,  4. 

You  do  yet  taste  some  subtleties.        Tempest,  v,  i. 

An  exquisite  and  poignant  sauce. 
For  which  I  '11  say  unto  my  cook,  ''There  's  gold. 
Go  forth,  and  be  a  knight." 

B.  Jonson,  The  Alchemist,  ii. 


That  keep  the  word  of  promise  to  our  ear, 
And  break  it  to  our  hope.  Macbeth,  v,  8. 

The  seeming  truth  which  cunning  times  put  on 

To  entrap  the  wisest.  merchant  of  Venice,  iii,  2. 


Surprises. 


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QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS 


Surprises.  He  wiU  make  a  syren 

Sing  in  the  kettle,  send  in  an  Arion, 
In  a  brave  broth,  and  of  a  watery  green 
Just  the  sea-colour,  mounted  on  the  back 
Of  a  brown  conger,  but  in  such  a  posture 
As  all  the  world  would  take  him  for  a  dolphin. 

B.  Jonson,  Staple  of  News,  iii,  i. 

But  who  is  this?  What  thing  of  sea  or  land? 

Milton,  Samson  Agonistes. 

Neither  fish,  nor  flesh,  nor  good  red-herring. 

Heywood's  Proverbs. 


Welsh 
Rabbit,  etc. 


A  man  can  die  but  once. 


II  Henry  IV,  iii,  2. 


Roasts. 


O,  what  men   dare    do,  what  men  may  do ! 
what  men  daily  do,  not  knowing  what  they  do ! 

Much  Ado,  iv,  i. 

Muskets  and  cannons! — Eat  it? 

Randolph,  Muse's  Looking -Glass. 

Good  friends,  sweet  friends,  let  me  not  stir  you 

up.  Julius  Caesar,  iii,  2. 

I  do  not  set  my  life  at  a  pin's  fee.         hamlet,  i,  4. 
Th'  impending  woe  sat  heavy  on  his  breast. 

Pope,  Rape  of  the  Lock,  ii,  54. 
ROASTS 

Lazarillo.     But  to  rule  the  roast  is  the  matter. 
Lady.     That  ruling  of  the  roast  goes  with  me ! 

Middleton,  Blurt,  Master  Constable,  iii,  3. 

Small  to  greater  matters  must  give  way. 

Antony  and  Cleopatra,  ii,  2. 

He  cut  it  to  please  himself  as  you  like  it,  v,  4. 


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Cut  and  come  again.  craihe,  tales,  vU.      >  »eef. 

Our  old  and  faithful  friend, 
We  are  glad  to  see  you.      measure  for  measure,  v,  i. 

I  am  a  great  eater  of  beef,  and  I  believe  that 
does  harm  to  my  wit.  twelfth  night,  i,  3. 

O,  my  sweet  beef,  I  must  still  be  good  angel  to 

thee.  I  Henry  IV,  iii,  3. 

And  of  a  wild-fowl  he  will  often  speak, 
Which  powdered  beef  and  mustard  called  is. 

Beaumont  and  Fletcher,  Knight  of  the  Burning  Pestle,  iv. 

Thou  dost  bite,  my  dear  Mustard  seed ! 

Congreve,  Way  of  the  World,  iv,  9. 

What  say  you  to  a  piece  of  beef  and  mustard? 
A  dish  that  I  do  love.  taming  of  the  Shrew,  iv,  3. 

If  you  give  me  any  conserves  give  me  conserves 

Ol  beet.  Taming  of  the  Shrew,  Induction. 

England's  Darling.  a i/red  Austin. 

If  you  could  be  drawn  to  affect  beef,  venison,  or 
fowl,  it  would  be  far  better. 

Beaiimont  and  Fletcher,  Woman  Hater,  iii,  3. 

I  protest  I  do  honor  a  chine  of  beef,  I  do  rever- 
ence a  loin  of  veal. 

Beaumont  and  Fletcher,  Woman  Hater,  iii,  3. 

Wut  's  good  's  all  English,  all  thet  is  n't  ain't. 

Lowell,  Biglow  Papers,  ii,  2. 

4 


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QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS 


Beef.  The  fat  ribs  of  peace 

Must  by  the  hungry  now  be  fed  upon. 

King  John,  iii,  3. 

Oh,  the  roast  beef  of  England, 
And  old  England's  roast  beef! 

Fielding,  Grub  Street  Opera,  iii,  2. 

O,  that  this  too  too  solid  flesh  would  melt! 

Hamlet,  i,  2. 

Fillet  of  Beet.  Until  at  last  it  came  to  be, 

For  length  and  breadth,  the  bigness  which  you 

see.  Bunyan,  Apol.  for  Pilgrim's  Progress. 

Mutton.  A  breast  of  mutton  stuffed  with  pudding. 

W.  Cartwright,  The  Ordinaka',  ii,  i. 

Give  charge  the  mutton  come  in  all  blood-raw. 

Middleton,  Mayor  of  Quinborough,  v,  i. 

A  joint  of  mutton  and  any  pretty  little  tiny 
kickshaws.  ii  henry  iv,  v,  i. 


What 's  this  ?   Mutton  ? 


Taming  of  the  Shrew,  iv,  i. 


Lamb. 


Sufferance  is  the  badge  of  all  our  tribe. 

Merchant  of  Venice,  i,  3. 

And  of  his  port  as  meek  as  is  a  maid. 

Chazicer,  Prol.  to  Canterbury  Tales. 

Pray  you  who  does  the  wolf  love  ? 

Coriolanus,  ii,  i. 


Veal. 


But  who  is  this,  what  thing  of  sea  or  land  ? 

Milton,  Samson  Agonistes. 

I  thank  him,  he  hath  bid  me  to  a  calf's  head 
and  a  capon.  much  ado,  v,  i. 


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51 


So  sweet  was  ne*er  so  fatal. 


Othello,  v,  2. 


Veal. 


Is  not  so  estimable,  profitable  neither, 
As  flesh  of  muttons,  beefs  or  goats. 

Merchant  of  Venice,  i,  3. 


Of  all  the  delicacies  in  the  whole  mundtis 
cedibilis  I  will  maintain  it  to  be  the  most  delicate. 

Charles  Lamb,  Essays  of  Elia. 

I  will  speak  not  of  your  grown  porkers — 
things  between  pig  and  pork — those  hobbyde- 
hoys — but  a  young  and  tender  suckling  —  un- 
der a  moon  old — guiltless  as  yet  of  the  sty. 

Charles  Lamb,  Essays  of  Elia. 

He  must  be  roasted.  .  . .  Thereis  no  flavour  com- 
parable to  that  of  the  crisp,  tawny  .  .  .  crackling 
as  it  is  well  called,  .  .  .  with  the  adhesive  oleag- 
inous —  oh  call  it  not  fat !  .  .  .  but  the  tender 
blossoming  of  fat  —  fat  cropped  in  the  bud  — 
...  the  cream  and  quintessence  of  the  child- 
pig's  yet  pure  food.  .  .  .  See  him  in  the  dish,  his 
second  cradle,  how  meek  he  lieth  !  .  .  .  his  mem- 
ory is  odoriferous,  ...  he  hath  a  fair  sepulchre 
in  the  grateful  stomach  of  the  judicious  epicure, 
—  and  for  such  a  tomb  might  be  content  to  die. 

Charles  Lamb,  Essays  of  Elia, 

It  were  a  sin  of  obstinacy,  great  obstinacy,  high 
and  horrible  obstinacy  to  decline  or  resist  the 
good  titillation  of  the  famelic  sense  which  is  the 

smell.  B.  Jonson,  Bartholomew  Fair,  ili,  i. 


Roast  Pig. 


I  thank  you  for  my  venison,  Master  Shallow. 

Merry  Wives  op  Windsor,  i,  i. 


Venison. 


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QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS 


Venison. 


Boar's  Head. 


I  took  my  wife  to  my  cozen,  Thomas  Pepys, 
and  found  them  just  sat  down  to  dinner,  which 
was  very  good;  only  the  venison  pasty  was  pal- 
pable beef,  which  was  not  handsome. 

Pepys f  Diary,  Jan.  6,  1660. 

Our  fathers  praised  rank  venison,  you  suppose 
Perhaps,  young  men !  our  fathers  had  no  nose  ? 

PopCt  Imitations  of  Horace,  ii,  2. 

Art  thou  there,  my  deer  ? 

Merry  Wives  of  Windsor,  v,  5. 

If  you  would  send  up  the  brawner's  head 
Sweet  rosemary  and  bays  around  it  spread; 
His  foaming  tusks  let  some  large  pippin  grace. 
Or  midst  their  thundering  spears  an  orange  place; 
Sauce  like  himself,  offensive  to  its  foes, 
The  roguish  mustard  dangerous  to  the  nose; 
Sack  and  the  well-spiced  hippocras,  the  wine, 
Wassail  the  bowl,  with  ancient  ribands  fine, 
Porridge  with  plums,  and  turkeys  with  the  chine. 

Dr.  King,  Art  of  Cookery  (1708). 

The  boar  will  use  us  kindly.  Richard  hi,  iii,  2. 

Like  a  full-acorned  boar,  a  German  one! 

Cymbelinb,  ii,  5. 

Eight  wild-boars  roasted  whole  at  breakfast, 
And  but  twelve  persons  there. 

Antony  and  Cleopatra,  ii,  2. 


Chickens. 


Instead  of  tears  let  them  pour  capon-sauce 
upon  my  hearse. 

Beaumont  and  Fletcher,  Woman  Hater,  i,  3. 

The  justice. 
In  fair  round  belly  with  good  capon  lined. 

As  You  Like  It,  ii,  7. 


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53 


Were  't  not  all  one,  an  empty  eagle  were  set 
To  guard  the  chicken  from  a  hungry  kite  ? 

II  Henry  VI,  iii,  i. 

Her  elbow  pinioned  close  upon  her  hips. 

Cowper,  Truth. 

And  spread  the  sacred  treasures  of  the  breast. 

Cowper,  Conversation. 


Chickens. 


There  needs  no  ghost,  my  lord,  come  from  the 
grave 

To  tell  us  this.  Hamlet,  i,  5. 

An  amber  scent  of  odorous  perfume 

Her  harbinger.  MUton,  samson  Agonistes. 

I  am  stifled  with  this  smell  of  sin.     king  John,  iv,  3. 


Duck  and 
Onions. 


Nothing  in  his  life 
Became  him  like  the  leaving  it.  Macbeth,  i,  4. 

Appoint  a  meeting  with  this  old  fat  fellow. 

Merry  Wives  of  Windsor,  iv,  4. 

He  made  me  mad 
To  see  him  shine  so  brisk  and  smell  so  sweet. 

I  Henry  IV,  i,  3. 

Here  he  comes,  swelling  like  a  turkey-cock. 

Henry  V,  v,  i. 

Stuffed  with  all  honourable  virtues,   much  ado,  i,  i. 


Turkey. 


Let  the  land 
Look  for  his  peer:  he  has  not  yet  been  found. 

T.  B.  Aldrich. 

Is  this  that  haughty  gallant,  gay  Lothario  ? 

Rowtt  Fair  Penitent,  v,  x. 


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Goose.  Was  I  with  you  there  for  the  goose  ? 

Thou  wast  never  with  me  for  anything  when 
thou  wast  not  there  for  the  goose. 

Romeo  and  Juliet,  ii,  4. 

How  near  the  god  drew  to  the  complexion  of  a 

goose  !  Merry  Wives  of  Windsor,  v,  5. 

V 
SORBETS,  WHEN  SERVED  BETWEEN  COURSES 

Sorbets.  How  wcU  my  comfort  is  revived  by  this  ! 

Romeo  and  Juliet,  iii,  3. 

It  is  a  dull  thing  to  tire,  and  as  we  say  now  to 
jade  anything  too  far.  Bacon,  Of  discourse. 

To  feed  again,  though  full.  Cymbeline,  ii,  4. 

So  coldly  sweet.  Byron,  Gaiour. 

The  cold  that  moderates  heat. 

Cervantes,  Don  Quixote,  ii,  68. 

To  give  satiety  a  fresh  appetite.  othello,  ii,  i. 


Roman  Punch,  jhis  was  the  noblest  Roman  of  them  all. 

Julius  C^sar,  v,  5. 
VEGETABLES 

Asparagus.       Fingcrs  wcre  made  before  forks. 

Swift,  Polite  Conversations,  ii. 

Have  you  this  spring  eaten  any  'sparagus  yet? 

Brome,  The  'Sparagus  Garden,  ii,  i. 


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And  with  forced  fingers  rude 
Shatter  your  leaves. 


Milton,  Lycidas. 


Artichoke. 


More  studious  to  divide  than  to  unite. 

Pojie,  Essay  on  Man,  ii. 


These  be  the  great  Twin  Brethren. 

Macaulay,  Battlb  of  Lake  Regillus. 


Corn  and 
Beans. 


Cowcumbers  are  cold  in  the  third  degree. 

Swift,  Polite  Conversations,  iL 


Cucumbers. 


Some  jay  of  Italy. 


Cymbeline,  ill,  4. 


Macaroni. 


Mellifluous  mild  macaroni, 
The  choice  of  her  children  when  cheeses  are  old. 

Bayard  Taylor,  Echo  Club. 


I  came  upstairs  into  the  world;  for  I  was  born      Mushrooms. 

in  a  cellar.  Congreve,  Love  for  Love,  ii,  7. 


The  mushrooms  show  his  wit. 


Pojie,  To 


The  common  growth  of  Mother  Earth 

Suffices  me.  Wordsworth,  Peter  Bell. 


Goodman  Puff  . 


Puff!  Puffin  thy  teeth! 

II  Henry  IV,  v,  3. 


Like  Niobe,  all  tears. 


Hamlkt,  i,  2. 


Onions. 


So  near  will  I  be  that  your  best  friends  shall 
wish  I  had  been  further.'  Julius  c^sar,  u,  2. 


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Onions.  Mine  eyes  smell  onions,  I  shall  weep  anon. 

All  's  Well  That  Ends  Well,  v,  3. 

What 's  in  a  name?  ...  a  rose 

By  any  other  name  would  smell  as  sweet. 

Romeo  and  Juliet,  ii,  2. 

The  tears  live  in  an  onion  that  should  water 

this  sorrow.  Antony  and  Cleopatra,  i,  2. 

Onions  will  make  even  heirs  or  widows  weep. 

W.  King,  Art  of  Cookery. 
Green  Peas.         HoW  green  yOU  are  and  fresh.  king  John,  iii,  4. 

We  can  call  these  delicate  creatures  ours! 

Othello,  iii,  3. 

A  most  fresh  and  delicate  creature,     othello,  ii,  3. 

Beautiful  as  sweet, 
And  young  as  beautiful,  and  soft  as  young. 

Young,  Night  Thoughts,  iii. 

O,  the  world  hath  not  a  sweeter  creature. 

Othello,  iv,  i. 

Your  infant  peas  to  asparagus  prefer.        w.  King 

MisceUaneous.  ThoSC  rOOtS 

That  shall  first  spring  and  be  most  delicate. 

Henry  V,  ii,  4. 

The  first-born  infants  of  the  spring. 

Love's  Labour's  Lost,  i,  s 

Enough,  with  over-measure.  coriolanus,  iii,  i. 

The  nobleman  of  the  garden.  Douglas  jerroid 


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Out  of  the  bowels  of  the  harmless  earth. 

I  Henry  IV,  i,  3 

Under  the  earth  in  fragrant  glooms  I  dwelt. 

T.  B.  Aldrich,  Pythagoras 

The  infants  of  the  spring  .  .  . 

In  the  morn  and  liquid  dew  of  youth,   hamlet,  i,  3 

Your  hearts  are  mighty,  your  skins  are  whole. 

Merry  Wives  of  Windsor,  iii,  i, 

From  the  still-vex'd  Bermoothes.         tempest,  i,  2, 


Potatoes 


Let  the  sky  rain  potatoes. 

Merry  Wives  of  Windsor,  v,  5. 


Though  it  make  the  unskilful  laugh,  cannot 
but  make  the  judicious  grieve.  hamlet.  iii,  a. 

It  is  not  strength,  but  art,  obtains  the  prize. 

Pope,  Iliad,  xxiii,  383. 

Pray  thee  take  care !  b.  jonson,  epigram. 


Practice  is  everything. 


Pertander. 


Your  experience  makes  you  sad. 

As  You  Like  It,  iv,  i. 

Subtle  and  slight  .  . 
And  scorn  experience  from  the  unpracticed. 

Davenani,  Gondibert. 

With  open  mouth  swallowing.  king  John,  iv,  2. 

In  hope  her  to  attain  by  hook  or  crook. 

Spenser,  Faerie  Queen,  iii,  i. 

Tis  slight,  not  strength,  that  gives  the  greatest 

hit.  Middleton,  Michaelmas  Term,  iv,  i. 


Spaghetti. 


fu.. 


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GAME 


Game.  Here  's  a  pigeon  so   finely  roasted,  it  cries, 

Come,  eat  me  !         "         Swi/t,  poute  conversations,  u. 

The  birds  were  warm.  Tennyson,  Aylmer's  Field. 


What  is  the  opinion  of  Pythagoras  concerning 


wild  fowl  ?  Twelfth  Night, 


IV,  2. 


You  know,  strange  fowl  light  upon  neighbour- 
ing ponds.  [Cymbeline,  i,  4. 


Four  woodcocks  in  a  dish !  love's  labour's  lost, 


IV,  3. 


And  fear  to  kill  a  woodcock,  lest  thou  dispos- 
sess the  soul  of  thy  grandam.     twelfth  Night,  iv,  2. 

Now  is  the  woodcock  near  the  gin. 

Twelfth  Night,  ii,  5. 

This  was  well  done,  my  bird  1  tempest,  iv,  i. 

Am  I  your  bird  ?     I  mean  to  shift  my  bush  ! 

Taming  of  the  Shrew,  v,  2. 

Her  delicate  tenderness.  othello,  u,  i. 

Let 's  carve  him  as  a  dish  fit  for  the  gods. 

Not  hew  him  as  a  carcass.  Julius  c^sar,  u,  i.    ■ 

For  the  more  genteel. 
Snipe,  woodcock,  partridge,  pheasant,  quail  we  '11 

serve.  W.  Cartwrlght,  The  Ordinary,  ii,  i. 

Th*  adorning  thee  with  so  much  art 

Is  but  a  barb'rous  skill.         cowUy,  the  waiting  maid. 


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And  lay  it  at  its  ease  with  gentle  care.  °*""*- 

Cowper,  The  Task,  ii. 
The  toothsome  snipe.  Horace,  country  Lifb. 

Go  your  ways  in  and  get  toasts  and  butter 
made  for  the  woodcocks. 

B.  Jonson,  The  Silent  Woman,  iii,  i. 

For  what  are  crowds  undone 
To  three  essential  partridges  in  one  ? 

Pope,  DuNCiAD,  iv. 

Crammed  to  the  throat  with  ortolans. 

Pope,  Imitations  of  Horace,  i. 

Till  death  untimely  stopped  his  tuneful  tongue. 

Pope,  Epistlb  to  Harlev. 

One  likes  the  pheasant's  wing  and  one  the  leg. 

Pope,  Satires,  v. 

All  as  a  partridge,  plump,  full-fed,  and  fair. 

Pope,  Dunciad,  ii. 
A  little  helpless  innocent  bird.  Tennyson,  Elaine. 

SALADS 

And  there  is  salmons  in  both.  henry  v,  iv,  7.  saiads. 

Herbs  that  have  on  them  cold  dew  o'  the  night. 

Cymbeline,  iv,  2. 

I  warrant  there  's  vinegar  and  pepper  in  't. 

Twelfth  Night,  iii,  4. 

My  salad  days, 
When  I  was  green  in  judgment,  cold  in  blood. 

Antony  and  Cleopatra,  i,  5. 

Let  onion  atoms  lurk  within  the  bowl, 
And,  half  suspected,  animate  the  whole. 

Sydney  Smith. 


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Salads.  Striving  to  better,  oft  we  mar  what 's  well. 

King  Lear,  i,  4. 

Three  several  salads  have  I  sacrificed,  bedew'd 
with  precious  oil  and  vinegar. 

Beaumont  and  Fletcher,  Woman  Hater,  i,  3. 

Bestrew'd  with  lettuce  and  cool  salad  herbs. 

Beaumont  and  Fletcher,  Woman  Hater,  i,  3. 

Well  read,  -  deeply  learned  and  thoroughly- 
grounded  in  the  hidden  knowledge  of  all  salads 
and  all  potherbs  whatsoever. 

Beaumont  and  Fletcher,  Woman  Hater,  i,  3. 

Here  are  Lettuces  for  every  man's  lips. 

Diet's  Dry  Dinner,  1599. 

Did  I  eat  any  lettuce  to  supper  last  night  that 
I  am  so  sleepy  ?  j.  cooke,  green's  tu  quoque. 

Just,  as  in  nature,  thy  proportions  be, 
As  full  of  concord  their  variety. 

A.  Cowley,  To  Mr.  Hobbes. 

That  sanguine  inexperience  loves  to  make. 

Cowper,  The  Valediction. 

A  cheap  but  wholesome  salad  from  the  brook. 

CowJ>er,  The  Task,  vi. 

Our  Garrick  's  a  salad,  for  in  him  we  see 
Oil,  vinegar,  sugar  and  saltness  agree! 

Goldsmith,  Retaliation. 

Few  things  are  impossible  to  diligence  and  skill. 

Johnson,  Rasselas,  xii. 

Knowledge  is  more  than  equivalent  to  force. 

Johnson,  Rasselas,  xiii. 

I  will  have 
The  beards  of  barbels  served  instead  of  salads. 

B.  Jonson,  Alchemist,  ii. 


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The  tender  lettuce  brings  on  softer  sleep.  Saiads. 

W.  King,  Art  of  Cookery. 

Variety  's  the  very  spice  of  life 

That  gives  it  all  its  flavor.  cowper,  the  task,  iii. 

A  good  crier  of  green  sauce.  Rabelais. 

Oh  !  herbaceous  treat ! 
'T  would  tempt  the  dying  anchorite  to  eat. 

Sydney  Smith. 
DESSERT 

The  daintiest  last  to  make  the  end  most  sweet.  Dessert, 

Richard  II,  i,  3. 

Wasteful  and  ridiculous  excess.         king  John,  iv,  2. 
Any  pretty  little  tiny  kickshaws,  tell  William 

cook.  II  Henry  IV,  v,  i. 

As  brown  in  hue 
As  hazel-nuts  and  sweeter  than  the  kernels. 

Taming  of  the  Shrew,  ii,  i. 

I  can  teach  sugar  to  slip  down  your  throat  a 

million  of  ways.  Dekker  and  Ford,  Sun's  Darling,  ii,  i. 

A  box  where  sweets  compacted  lie. 

Herbert,  Vertuk. 

Lucent  syrops,  tinct  with  cinnamon. 

Keats,  Eve  of  St.  Agnes. 

Nor  waste  their  sweetness  in  the  desert  air. 

Churchill,  Gotham,  ii,  20. 

*T  is  the  dessert  that  graces  all  the  feast, 
For  an  ill  end  disparages  the  rest. 

W.  King,  Art  of  Cookery. 


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Dessert.  Unlcss  soHie  swcetncss  at  the  bottom  He, 

Who  cares  for  all  the  crinkling  of  the  pie  ? 

W.King. 

They  call  for  dates  and  quinces  in  the  pastry. 

Romeo  and  Juliet,  iv,  4. 

The  taste  of  sweetness,  whereof  a  little 
More  than  a  little  is  by  much  too  much. 

I  Henry  IV,  iii,  2. 

One  poor  pennyworth  of  sugar-candy  to  make 
thee  longwinded.  i  henry  iv,  lii,  3. 

For  he  pretends  too  much,  or  is  a  fool, 

Who  'd  fix  those  things  where  fashion  is  the  rule. 

W,  King. 

I  am  glad  that  my  Adonis  hath  a  sweete  tooth 
in  his  head.  Lyiy,  euphues. 

A  wilderness  of  sweets.       Miiton,  paradise  lost,  v,  294. 

And  a  perpetual  feast  of  nectar'd  sweets 
Where  no  crude  surfeit  reigns. 

Milton^  CoMUS. 

All  that 's  sweet  was  made 

But  to  be  lost  when  sweetest.  Moore,  all  that's  bright. 

Can  one  desire  too  much  of  a  good  thing  ? 

As  You  Like  It,  iv,  i. 

The  last  taste  of  sweets  is  sweetest  last. 

Richard  II,  ii,  i. 

A  dish  fit  for  the  gods.  julius  c^sar,  ii,  i. 

Pray,  my  lady  Answerall,  how  do  you  like 
these  preserved  oranges  ? 

Swift,  Polite  Conversations,  ii. 


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Here,  sweetheart,  here  *s  some  green  ginger  Dessert, 

for  thee. 

Beaumont  and  Fletcher,  Knight  of  the  Burning  Pestle,  ii. 
Trifles  light  as  air.  Othello,  iii,  3.        Syllabubs,  etc. 

Gives  to  airy  nothing 
A  local  habitation  and  a  name. 

Midsummer  Night's  Dream,  v,  1. 

This  bodiless  creation  ecstacy 

Is  very  tunning  in.  hamlet,  iii,  4. 

Sweet,  not  lasting, 
The  perfume  and  suppliance  of  a  minute. 

Hamlet,  i,  3. 

If  you  will  but  speak  the  word,  I  will  make 
you  a  good  Syllabub,  and  then  you  may  sit  down 
in  a  Hay- cock  and  eat  it,  and  Maudlin  shall  sit  by 
and  sing  you'  the  good  old  song  of  the  Hunt- 
ing in  Chevy  Chase.  waiton,  complete  angler,  xL 

You  can  make  whipt  cream ;  pray  what  relief 
Will  that  be  to  a  sailor  who  wants  beef  ? 

W.  King,  Art  of  Cookery. 

Thy  white-wine,  sugar,  milk,  together  club 
To  make  that  gentle  viand — syllabub. 

W.  King,  MouNTOWN. 

With  the  desserts  of  poetry  they  fed  him. 
Instead  of  solid  meats  t'  increase  his  force. 

A.  Cowley,  To  the  Royal  Society, 

Dream  of  a  shadow  !  a  reflection,  made 

From  the  false  glories  of  the  gay  reflected  bow 

Is  a  more  solid  thing  than  thou. 

A.  Cowley,  Life  and  Fame. 


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QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS 


Jelly. 


Feel,  masters,  how  I  shake  !  ii  henry  iv,  a,  4. 

Every  part  about  me  quivers. 

Romeo  and  Juliet,  ii,  4. 

Right  as  an  aspen  leaf  she  'gan  to  quake. 

Chaucer,  Troilus  and  Creseide,  ii. 


Marrons. 


And  a  large  chestnut,  the  delicious  meat 
Which  Jove  himself,  were  he  a  mouse,  would  eat. 

A.  Ccnvley,  Country  Mouse. 


I  am  forbid 
Mince-pie.        Xo  tell  the  sccrcts  of  my  prison-house. 

Hamlet,  i,  5. 

Marchpane.       Good  thou,  savc  me  a  piece  of  Marchpane. 

Romeo  and  Juliet,  i,  5. 

Some  good  curious  March-panes  made  into 
The  form  of  trumpets. 

W.  Cartwrigkt,  The  Ordinary,  ii,  i. 

With  such  imitation 
Of  form  and  color  't  will  deceive  the  eye 
Until  the  taste  be  ravish'd. 

Dekker  and  Ford,  Sun's  Darling,  iv,  i. 


Pudding. 


Pudding  that  might  have  pleased  a  Dean. 

Pope,  Imitations  of  Horace,  ii. 

Come,  will  you  do  as  we  do  ?    You  are  come 
in  Pudding-time.  Swi/t,  polite  conversations,  ii. 

And  lo !  two  puddens  smoked  upon  the  board. 

Pope,  Moral  Essays,  iii. 


QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS  6^ 


My  morning  incense  and  my  evening  meal,  Pudding. 

The  Sweets  of  Hasty  Pudding. 

Barlow,  The  Hasty  Pudding. 


Thou  hast  described  a  hot  friend  cooling.  pium-pudding. 

Julius  C^sar,  iv,  2. 

Like  a  pale  martyr  in  his  shirt  of  fire. 

Alexander  Smith,  A  Life  Drama. 


It  is  a  familiar  beast  to  man,  and  signifies  love. 

Merry  Wives  of  Windsor,  i,  i. 

I  always  thought  cold  victual  nice; — 
My  choice  would  be  vanilla  ice. 

O.  W.  Holmes,  Contentment. 

For  there  was  never  yet  philosopher 
That  could  endure  the  toothache  patiently. 

Much  Ado,  v,  i. 

Then  farewell  heat  and  welcome  frost. 

Merchant  of  Venice,  ii,  7. 

The  forms  of  things  unknown. 

Midsummer  Night's  Dream,  v,  i. 

Our  mouths  be  cold.  tempest,  i,  i. 

Who  's  that  calls  so  coldly?     A  piece  of  ice. 

Taming  of  the  Shrew,  iv,  i. 
A  mockery  king  of  snow.  Richard  II,  iv,  I. 

Lack  of  kindly  warmth.  timon  of  Athens,  ii,  2. 

A  figure 
Trenched  in  ice,  which  with  an  hour's  heat 

Dissolves  to  water.  two  Gentlemen  of  Verona,  iii,  a. 

5 


Ices. 


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Ices.  A  thousand  different  shapes  it  bears, 

Comely  in  thousand  shapes  appears. 

A.  Cowley,  Ode  on  Wit. 

Blockhead!    With  a  fork!  Cowper,Yiovn. 

And  parti-coloured  troops,  a  shining  train. 

Pope,  Rapb  of  the  Lock,  iii. 

Miscellaneous.  A  deal  of  skimble  skamble  stuff,     i  henry  iv,  Hi,  i. 

Glittering  squares  of  colored  ice, 

Sweetened  with  syrop,  tinctured  with  spice, 

Creams,  and  cordials,  and  sugared  dates, 

Syrian  apples,  Othmanee  quinces. 

Limes,  and  citrons,  and  apricots. 

And  wines  that  are  known  to  Eastern  princes. 

T.  B.  A  Idrich,  When  the  Sultan  Goes  to  Ispahan. 

A  porcelain  dish,  o'er  which  in  many  a  cluster 
Plump  grapes  hung  down,  dead-ripe  and  without 

luster : 
A  melon  cut  in  thin  delicious  slices; 
A  cake  that  seemed  mosaic- work  in  spices: 
Two  China  cups  with  golden  tulips  sunny. 
And  rich  inside  with  chocolate  like  honey. 

T.  B.  A  Idrich,  The  Lunch, 

The  rose-lipp'd  dawning 
Is  not  so  melting,  so  deliciqus. 

Dekker  and  Ford,  Sun's  Darling,  ii,  i. 


Fruit.  My  news  shall  be  the  fruit  to  that  great  feast. 

Hamlet,  ii,  2. 

I  will  make  an  end  of  my  dinner,  there  *s  pip- 
pins and  cheese  to  come.    Merry  wives  of  Windsor,  i,  2. 


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67 


Peaches,  apricots,  ^"^"i** 

And  malecotoons,  with  other  choicer  plumbs. 
Will  serve  for  large-sized  bullets;  then  a  dish 
Or  two  of  pease  for  small  ones. 

JV.  Cart-wright,  The  Ordinary,  ii,  i. 

Give  cherries  at  time  of  year  or  apricots  ;  and 
say  they  were  sent  you  out  of  the  country, 
though  you  bought  them  in  Cheapside. 

B.  Jonson,  Silent  Woman,  iv,  i. 

How  gladly  then  he  plucks  the  grafted  pear, 
Or  grape  that  dims  the  purple  tyrants  wear. 

Horace^  Country  Life.  • 

To  Westminster  Hall,  where  I  met  with  W. 
Symons,  etc.,  and  with  them  to  the  Dogg,  where 
we  eat  a  musk  melon,  the  first  that  I  have  eat 

this  year.  Pepys,  Diary,  August  23,  1660. 

Fat  olives  and  pistachio's  fragrant  nut. 

And  the  pine's  tasteful  apple.  /.  phiups,  Cider. 

In  the  name  of  the  Prophet — figs! 

Horace  Smith,  Johnson's  Ghost. 

Eas'd  the  putting  off 
These  troublesome  disguises  which  we  wear. 

Milton,  Paradise  Lost,  iv. 


Doubtless  God  could  have  made  a  better  berry,    strawberries, 
but  doubtless  God  never  did. 

Dr.  William  Butler,  In  Walton's  Angler,  i,  5. 

We  are  yours  i'  the  garden.  winter's  tale,  i,  2. 


Digestive  cheese  and  fruit  there  sure  will  be. 

B.  Jon.wn,  Epigrams,  cI. 


Cheese. 


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Cheese.  They  Surfeited  with  honey  and  began 

To  loathe  the  taste  of  sweetness. 

I  Henry  IV,  iii,  2. 

More  pleased  to  keep  it  till  their  friends  could 

come.  Pope,  Satires,  ii. 

You  must  eat  no  cheese  ...  it  breeds  melan- 
choly. B.  Jonson,  The  Alchemist,  iii. 

Pray  does  anybody  here  hate  cheese?    I  would 

be  glad  of  a  bit.  Swift,  polite  conversations,  ii. 

Art  thou  come  ?   Why  my  cheese,  my  digestion ! 

Troilus  and  Cressida,  ii,  3. 

Bachelor's  fare;  bread  and  cheese  and  kisses. 

Swift,  Polite  Conversations,  i. 

Not  a  mouse  shall  disturb  this. 

Midsummer  Night's  Dream,  v,  i. 

Roquefort,  etc.  J  having  been  acquainted  with  the  smell  before ! 

Two  Gentlemen  of  Verona,  iv,  4. 

At  which  my  nose  is  in  great  indignation. 

Tempest,  iv,  i. 

And  smelt  so  ?  pah !  hamlet,  v,  i. 

So  may  a  glory  from  defect  arise !  Browning. 

COFFEE 

Coffee.  'T  is  hot,  it  smokes!  Lear,v,  3. 

With  whose  .  .  .  smell  the  air  shall  be  perfumed. 

II  Henry  VI,  i,  i. 


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I  have  not  slept  one  wink.  cymbeune,  ui,  4.  coffee. 

The  apprehension  of  the  good 
Gives  but  the  greater  feeling  to  the  worse. 

Richard  II,  i,  3. 

Thou  art  all  the  comfort 
The  gods  will  diet  me  with.  Cymbeune,  m,  4. 

An  earthly  paragon.  Cymbeune,  m,  6. 

By  and  by  is  easily  said.  Hamlet,  m,  2. 

A  little  pot  and  soon  hot.   taming  of  the  shrew,  Iv,  i. 

Although  the  last,  not  least.  lear,  i,  i. 

The  strength 

Of  twenty  men.  Romeo  and  Juliet,  V,  1. 

Water  with  berries  in  't.  tempest,  i,  2. 

We  would  and  we  would  not. 

Measure  for  Measure,  iv,  4. 

One  sip  of  this 
Will  bathe  the  drooping  spirits  in  delight 
Beyond  the  bliss  of  dreams.  Muton,  Comus. 

And  for  my  soul  I  cannot  sleep  a  wink. 

Pofe,  Satires,  i. 

O,  it  is  excellent 
To  have  a  giant's  strength,  measure  for  measure,  u,  2. 

I  '11  none  of  it.  Macbeth,  v,  3. 


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Coffee.  ^nd  now,  while  it  is  hot.  henry  viii,  v,  i. 

Or  o'er  cold  coffee  trifle  with  the  spoon. 

Pope,  To  Miss  Blount. 

Coffee,  which  makes  the  politician  wise. 

Pope,  Rape  of  the  Lock,  iii. 

For  lo!    the   board   with    cups    and    spoons  is 

crowned. 
The  berries  crackle  and  the  mill  turns  round. 

Pope,  Rape  of  the  Lock,  iii. 

'T  is  strong,  and  it  does  indifferent  well. 

Twelfth  Night,  i,  3. 
A  strong  distillation.  Merry  wives  of  Windsor,  iii,  s- 

More  black  than  ash -buds  in  the  front  of  March. 

Tennyson,  Gardener's  Daughter. 
Black  it  stood  as  night.  MUton,  Paradise  Lost,  iL 

{^See  Liqueurs  under  Wine.) 


Chapter  III 

FOR  ENDINGS  OF  DINNER  MENUS,  PROGRAMS,  ETC. 

Let  us  take  a  ceremonious  leave  DinnerMenus. 

And  loving  farewell  of  our  several  friends. 

Richard  II,  i,  3. 

But  lest  too  many  dishes  should  cast  you  into 
a  Surfeit,  I  will  now  take  away ;  yet  so  that,  if  I 
perceive  you  relish  this  well,  the  rest  shall  be  in 
time  prepared  for  you. 

Dekker,  Gull's  Hornbook. 

Let  US  leave  here,  gentlemen.  cymbeline,  i,  4. 

Let  us  not  be  dainty  of  leave-taking, 

But  shift  away.  Macbeth,  ii,  3. 

And  go  well  satisfied.  love's  labour's  lost,  u,  i. 

O  calm  hush'd  rich  Content 

Marston,  Antonio  and  Mellida,  i,  3. 

All  is  well  that  ends  well.         Heywood,  proverbs,  i,  lo. 
My  dinner  was  noble  and  enough. 

Pepys,  Diary,  Jan.  12,  1663. 
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7^  QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS 

Dinner  Menus.  In  the  hopc  to  meet 

Shortly  again  and  make  our  absence  sweet. 

B.  Jonson,  Underwoods. 

Madam,  I  must  take  my  leave ;  come,  gentle- 
men are  you  for  a  march  ? 

Swift,  Polite  Conversations,  i. 

The  goodness  of  the  night  upon  you,  friends  ! 

Othello,  i,  2. 

If  it  were  now  to  die, 
*T  were  now  to  be  most  happy.  othello,  ii,  i. 

Who  rises  from  a  feast 
With  that  keen  appetite  that  he  sits  down  ? 

Merchant  of  Venice,  ii,  6. 

Since  I  have  your  good  leave  to  go  away,  I 

will  make  haste.  merchant  of  Venice,  iii,  2. 

Speed  the  parting  guest.  poj>e,  Odyssey,  xv. 

Serenely  full,  the  epicure  would  say. 

Fate  cannot  harm  me, — I  have  dined  to-day. 

Sydney  Smith,  Recipe  for  Salad. 

So  comes  a  reckoning  when  the  banquet  's  o'er — 
The  dreadful  reckoning,  and  men  smile  no  more. 

Gay,  The  What  D'ye  Call  It,  ii,  9. 

Shrine  of  the  mighty !  can  it  be 

That  this  is  all  remains  of  thee  ?^  Byron,  thb  giaour. 

Gude  nicht,  and  joy  be  wi'  you  a'.       lady  nairne. 

Must  we  part  ? 
Well,  if  we  must — we  must — and  in  that  case. 
The  less  is  said  the  better,     sheridan,  the  critic,  ii,  2. 

The  end  must  justify  the  means.  Prior,  hans  Carvel. 


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Soft  !    I  will  go  along.  Romeo  and  Juuet,!,  I.       Dinner  Menus. 


I  have  more  care  to  stay  than  will  to  go. 

Romeo  and  Juliet,  iii,  5. 

Farewell,  Monsieur  Traveler.       as  You  Like  it,  iv,  i. 
Depart  at  pleasure,  leave  us  here. 

Titus  Andronicus,  v,  2. 

Let  one  attend  him  with  a  silver  basin 

Full  of  rose  water.  taming  of  the  Shrew,  induction. 

Here  late,  with  much  ada  I  left  to  look  upon 
them  and  went  away.  Pepys,  diary,  juiy  13, 1663. 

T  is  grievous  parting  with  good  company. 

George  Eliot,  Spanish  Gypsy,  ii. 

The  rolling  smoke  involves  the  sacrifice. 

Pope,  Dunciad,  i. 


O  go  not  yet !  II  Henry  VI,  iii,  2.         when  some- 

^  J  thing  follows. 

We  '11  have  dancing  afterward.  much  ado,  v,  4. 

When  dinner  's  done  show  me  this  piece. 

TiMON  OF  Athens,  i,  i. 

Good  night  and  welcome,  both  at  once,  to  those 
That  go  or  tarry.  troilus  and  cressida,  v,  i. 

What  news,  gentlemen, 
Have  you  any  news  for  after  dinner  ?     Methinks 
We  should  not  spend  our  time  unprofitably. 

B.  Jonson,  The  Staple  of  News,  iv,  i. 


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After  the  And  HOW  farewell 

Till  half  an  hour  hence.  tempest,  iu,  i. 

Left  and  abandon'd  of  his  velvet  friends. 

As  You  Like  It,  ii,  i. 

If  thus  thou  vanishest,  thou  tell'st  the  world 
It  is  not  worth  leave-taking. 

Antony  and  Cleopatra,  v,  2. 

Let  me  but  meet  you,  ladies,  one  hour  hence. 

Richard  III,  iv,  i. 

I  will  go  meet  the  ladies.  Coriolanus,  v,  4. 

If  I  like  thee  no  worse  after  dinner 

I  will  not  part  from  thee  yet.  Lear,  i,  4. 

They  are  at  the  end  of  the  Gallery;  retired  to 
their  Tea  and  Scandal ;  according  to  their  An- 
cient Custom  after  Dinner. 

Congreve,  Double  Dealer,  i,  i. 

Men's  Dinner.        Lg^  ^s   make  an  honorable  retreat;    though 
not  with  bag  and  baggage.  -       as  you  like  it,  iii,  2. 

Is  he  coming  home? 
It  seems  he  hath  great  care  to  please  his  wife. 

Comedy  of  Errors,  ii,  i. 

Good  master  doctor,  see  him  safe  convey'd 

Home  to  my  house.  Comedy  of  Errors,  iv,  4. 

But  't  is  no  wit  to  go. 
Why,  may  one  ask  ?  romeo  and  juliet,  i,  4. 

It  is  good  morrow,  is  it  not? 

Indeed,  my  lord,  I  think  it  be  two  o'clock. 

I  Henry  IV,  ii,  4. 


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Hang  Sorrow!     Care  will  kill  a  cat —  Men's  Dinner. 

And  therefore  let  's  be  merry. 

George  Wither,  Christmas. 

After  dinner  to  billiards,  where  I  won  an  angel. 

Pepys,  Diary,  Sept.  ii,  1665. 

I  have  fed  like  a  farmer;  I  shall  grow  as  fat  as 

a  porpoise.*  Swift,  polite  Conversations,  ii. 

For  those  that  fly  may  fight  again, 
Which  he  can  never  do  that 's  slain. 

Butler,  Hudibras,  iii,  3. 

From  this  day  forward 
I  '11  hate  all  breakfasts  and  depend  on  dinners. 

Beaumont  and  Fletcher,  The  Spanish  Curate,  v,  3. 

You  are  welcome  home,  my  lord. 

I  thank  you,  madam.  merchant  of  Venice,  V,  I. 

Protect  me  from  the  sin 
That  dooms  me  to  those  dreadful  words, 
"  My  dear,  where  have  you  been?  " 

O.  W.  Holmes,  On  Lending  a  Punch  Bowl. 

Sit,  worthy  friends,  my  lord  is  often  thus. 
And  hath  been  from  his  youth.  Macbeth,  iii,  4. 

What  'S  done  is  done.  Macbeth,  iii,  2. 

Malice  domestic,  foreign  levy,  nothing 

Can  touch  him  farther.  Macbeth,  iii,  2. 

My  grief  lies  onward  and  my  joy  behind. 

Shakspere,  Sonnets,  1. 

Then  welcome  refuge  and  a  peaceful  home. 

Cowper,  Truth. 

His  devious  course  uncertain,  seeking  home. 

Cowper,  Task,  iii,  3. 


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Men's  Dinner.  I  am  not  HOW 

That  which  I  have  been.  Syron,  Childe  Harold,  iv. 

And  truant  husband  should  return,  and  say, 
"  My  dear,  I  was  the  first  who  came  away." 

Byron,  Don  Juan,  i. 

I  have  hope  to  live  and  am  prepared  to  die. 

Measure  for  Measure,  iii,  i. 

Farewell  and  stand  fast.  i  henry  iv,  h,  2. 

^  Good  my  lord,  you  are  full  of  heavenly  stuff. 

Henry  VIII,  iii,  2. 

Now  my  soul  hath  elbow-room.      king  John,  v,  7. 

The  game  is  up.  Cymbeune,  iii,  3. 

»  So  do  I 

To  put  all  relish  from  my  memory 
Of  parting,  drown  it.  b.  jonson,  an  elkgy. 

So,  let  me  have 
But  any  reasonable  thing  to  lead  me  home, 
I  do  not  care  though  't  be  a  dog,  so  that 
He  knows  the  way,  or  hath  the  wit  t'  enquire  it^ 

W.  Cartwright,  The  Ordinary,  iv,  3. 

And  greeted  with  a  smile.  cowj>er,  charity. 

Ordained  to  guide  the  embodied  spirit  home. 

Cow/>er,  Task,  v. 

Fool  was  he  that  wished  but  a  crane's  short  neck; 
Give  me  one.  Nature,  long  as  is  a  cable 
Or  sounding  Hne;  and  all  the  way  a  palate. 
To  taste  my  meat  the  longer. 

Randolph,  Muses'  Looking-Glass. 


QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS  77 

I  witness  with  him  Men's  Dinner. 

That  he  dined  not  at  home.       comedy  of  Errors,  v,  i. 
We  have  heard  the  chimes  at  midnight. 

II  Henry  IV,  iii,  a. 

I  am  here,  brother,  full  of  heaviness. 

II  Henry  IV,  iv,  5.    . 

Drink  some  wine  ere  you  go:  fare  you  well. 

Much  Ado,  iii,  5. 

And  carouse  together  like  friends  long  lost. 

Antony  and  Cleopatra,  iv,  12. 

Assume  a  virtue  if  you  have  it  not.     hamlet,  iii,  4. 

Of  all  the  horrid,  hideous  notes  of  woe, 
Sadder  than  owl-songs  or  the  midnight  blast, 
Is  that  portentous  phrase,  **  I  told  you  so.'* 

Byron,  Don  Juan,  xiv. 

A  bad  quarter  of  an  hour.  Rabelais. 

Come  what  may,  I  have  been  bless'd. 

Byron,  The  Giaour. 

A  sadder  and  a  wiser  man 

He  rose  the  morrow  morn.  coUridge,  ancient  Mariner. 

The  stag  at  eve  had  drunk  his  fill. 

Scott,  Lady  op  the  Lake. 

A  man  's  a  man  for  a'  that.  sums. 

There 's  no  place  like  home.  j.  h.  Payne. 

The  gray  dawn  is  breaking. 

Z.  M.  Crawford,  Kathleen  Mavournebn. 

The  survival  of  the  Fittest. 

Herbert  Spencer,  Principles  of  Biology,  I,  xii. 


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Men's  Dinner.    We  havc  met  the  enemy  and  they  are  ours. 

Oliver  H.  Perry,  1813. 

I  am  a  part  of  all  that  I  have  met. 

Tennyson^  Ulysses. 

How  dull  it  is  to  pause,  to  make  an  end. 

Tennyson,  Ulysses. 

I  feel  the  old  convivial  glow  (  unaided )  o'er  me 
stealing, — 

The  warm,  champagny,  old-particular,  brandy- 
punchy  feeling.  O.  W.  Holmes,  Postccenatica. 

Have  you  not  day  enough  to  sleep  in,  but  you 
must  sleep  in  the  night  too  ?      'T  is  an  arrant 

paradox.  Randolph,  Aristippus. 

And  then  be  seen,  for  a  hour  or  two  to  correct 
your  teeth  with  some  quill  or  silver  instrument ; 
...  it  skills  not  whether  you  dined  or  no  .  .  or 
in  what  place  you  dined.        Dekker,  gull's  hornbook. 


For  head  of  a  Then  shall  our  namcs 

a^Mi'nSrwhe°re  Familiar  in  his  mouth  as  household  words 
wriJun."^''*^*'  Be  in  their  flowing  cups  freshly  remembered. 

Henry  V,  iv,  3. 

I  '11  tell  you  them  all  by  their  names  as  they 

pass  by.         •  Troilus  and  Cressida,  i,  2. 

Find  those  persons  out 
Whose  names  are  written  there. 

Romeo  and  Juliet,  i,  2. 

As  proper  men  as  ever  trod  upon  neat's  leather. 

Julius  Cesar,  i,  i. 


QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS  79 


What  is  thy  name  ?     I  know  thy  quality.  bifnk  pag^e°on 

Henry  V,  iii,  6.        a  Menu,  where 
names  are  to  be 

And  now  subscribe  your  names.  written. 

Love's  Labour's  Lost,  i,  i. 

Here  is  the  scroll  of  every  man's  name  which  is 

thought  fit.  Midsummer  Night's  Dream,  i,  2. 

Dost  thou  use  to  write  thy  name  ?  or  hast  thou 
a  mark  to  thyself  ?  11  henry  vi,  iv,  2. 

I  cannot  tell  what  the  dickens  his  name  is. 

Merry  Wives  of  Windsor,  iii,  2. 

I  do  beseech  you 
(  Chiefly  that  I  might  set  it  in  my  prayers), 
What  is  your  name  ?  tempest,  iii,  i. 

He  will  print  them,  out  of  doubt ;  for  he  cares  Lift  of  Names 

,         -^  .         '  of  givers  of  a 

not  what  he  puts  mto  the  press.  dinner. 

Merry  Wives  of  Windsor,  ii,  i. 

T  is  pleasant,  sure,  to  see  one's  name  in  print. 

Byron,  English  Bards  and  Scotch  Reviewers. 

And  the  high  gods 
To  do  you  justice  make  them  ministers 
Of  us  and  those  that  love  you. 

Antony  and  Cleopatra,  iii,  6. 

Gratitude  is  expensive.  g//53^«,  decline  and  fall. 

Bait  the  hook  well.  much  ado  about  nothing,  ii,  3. 

The    true    Amphitryon    is    the   Amphitryon 

who  gives  the  dinner.  MoUire,  Amphitryon,  iii,  5. 

On  hospitable  thoughts  intent. 

Milton,  Paradise  Lost,  v. 


'\ 


80  QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS 


List  of  Names  Conduct  Hie  to  mine  host :  we  love  him  his^hly. 

of  givers  of  a  <=>      • 

Dinner.  Macbeth,  i,  6. 

Framed  in  the  prodigality  of  nature. 

Richard  III,  i,  2. 

Twixt  such  friends  as  we 
Few  words  suffice.  taming  of  the  shrew,  i,  2. 

Thou  shalt  not  choose  but  go : 

Do  not  deny.  twelfth  night,  iv,  i. 

I  think  we  do  know  the  sweet  Roman  hand. 

'     Twelfth  Night,  iii,  4. 

You  see  by  the  fineness  and  delicacy  of  their 
diet,  diving  into  the  fat  capons,  drinking  your 
rich  wines,  feeding  on  larks,  sparrows,  potatoe- 
pies  and  such  good  unctuous  meats,  how  their 
wits  are  refined  and  rarified. 

B.  Jonson  Every  Man  out  of  his  Humour,  ii,  i. 

In  the  way  of  comfort  to  the  weak  I  will  go 
and  eat,  I  will  eat  exceedingly  and  prophesy ; 
there  may  be  a  good  use  made  of  it  too,  now  I 

thmk  on    t.  B.  Jonson,  Bartholomew  Fair,  i. 


End  of  What  will  this  sister  of  mine  do  with  rice  ? 

Wedding 

Breakfast.  Winter's  Tale,  iv,  3. 

Clubs  cannot  part  them.  as  you  like  it,  v,  2. 

The  gods  preserve  you  both.  coriolanus,  iv,  6. 

The  glorious  gods  sit  in  hourly  synod  about 
thy  particular  prosperity.  coriolanus,  v,  2. 


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8l 


Now  sighs  steal  out  and  tears  begin  to  flow !  v^ddin^ 

Pope,  Essay  on  Criticism.  Breakfast. 

Good  luck 
Shall  fling  her  old  shoe  after. 

Tennyson^  Will  Waterproof. 

This  comes  off  well  and  excellent. 

TiMON  OF  Athens,  i,  i. 

Prosperous  life,  long  and  ever  happy  ! 

Henry  VIII,  v,  5. 

And  he  to  England  shall  along  with  you. 

Hamlet,  iii,  3, 

But  come,  for  England  !  hamlet,  iv,  3. 

We  must  speed  for  France,  for  France. 

King  John,  i,  i. 

Take  therefore  shipping,  post,  my  lord,  to  France. 

I  Henry  VI,  v,  5. 

Had  you  not  lately  an  intent, — speak  truly  — 

To  go  to  Paris  ?  all  's  well  that  ends  Well,  i,  3. 

Bid  them  blow  towards  England's  blessed  shore! 

II  Henry  VI,  iii,  2. 

The  Lord  bless  you !  God  prosper  your  affairs  !  ^ 

II  Henry  IV,  iii,  2. 

To  London  with  triumphant  march. 

III  Henry  VI,  ii,  6. 

Now  for  good  luck,  cast  an  old  shoe  after  me. 

Heywood,  Proverbs,  i,  9. 

Each  one  betake  him  to  his  rest.         pericles,  ii,  3.     Programs,°etc. 
The  iron  tongue  of  midnight  hath  told  twelve. 

Midsummer  Night's  Dream,  v,  i. 

6 


8s  QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS 


pro°ramf  etc    '^^^^  youf  Icavc  of  all  your  friends. 

All  's  Well,  iv,  3. 

I  multiply 
With  one  **We  thank  you"  many  thousands  moe 
That  go  before  it.  winter's  tale,  i,  2. 

Stand  not  upon  the  order  of  your  going, 

But  go  at  once.  Macbeth,  iii,  4. 

Why  take  we  hands,  then  ?   Only  to  part  friends. 

Love's  Labour's  Lost,  v,  2. 

Abandon,  — which  is  in  the  vulgar,  leave. 

As  You  Like  It,  v,  i. 

Let  him  walk  from  whence  he  came  lest  he 
catch  cold  on  's  feet.  comedy  of  errors,  m,  i. 

Something  too  much  of  this !  hamlet,  m,  2. 

What  doth  gravity  out  of  his  bed  at  midnight  ? 

I  Henry  IV,  ii,  4. 

Company,  villainous  company,  hath  been  the 
spoil  of  me.  .  i  henry  iv,  m,  3. 

Let  down  the  curtain,  the  farce  is  done. 

Rabelais. 

Some  wee  short  hours  ayont  the  twal ! 

Bums,  Death  and  Dr.  Hornbook. 

To  all,  to  each,  a  fair  good  night, 

And  pleasing  dreams,  and  slumbers  light. 

Scott,  Marmion  (L'Envoy). 

Come,  children,  let  us  shut  up  the  box  and  the 
puppets,  for  our  play  is  played  out. 

Thackeray,  Vanity  Fair. 


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This  palpable- gross  play  hath  well  beguiled  ProSJams  °etc 

The  heavy  gait  of  night. 

Midsummer  Night's  Dream,  v,  i. 

I  thank  you  all ; 

I  thank  you,  honest  gentlemen ;  good  night ! 

Romeo  and  Juliet,  i,  5. 

Gentlemen,  prepare  not  to  be  gone; 
We  have  a  trifling  foolish  banquet. 

Romeo  and  Juliet,  i,  5. 

And  so  home,  with  much  ado  in  an  hour  get- 
ting a  coach.  Pepys,  Diary,  Jan.  8,  1663. 

Turn  over  a  new  leaf.  End  of  page  of 

Middleton,  Anything  for  a  Quiet  Life,  v,  3. 

Now  the  battle  's  ended.  in  henry  vi,  h,  6.      ^"S°^^"^^^^^ 

'    '  Program. 

The  harmony  of  their  tongues  hath  into  bondage 
Brought  my  too  diligent  ear.  Tempest,  m,  i. 

Their  rising  all  at  once  was  as  the  sound 

Of  thunder  heard  remote.        MUton,  paradise  lost,  a. 

My  ears  were  never  better  fed 
With  such  delightful  pleasing  harmony. 

PERICLES,iii,  5. 

Silence  is  the  perfectest  herald  of  joy. 

Much  Ado,  ii,  i. 

Silence  was  pleas'd.  Muton,  paradise  lost,  iv. 

Bare  ruin'd  choirs  where    late  the  sweet  birds 

sang.  Shakspere,  Sonnets,  Ixxiii. 


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End ot Musical  J  thank  vou  for  your  voices:  thank  you: 

Program.  ^  l         - 

Your  most  sweet  voices.  coriolanus,  u,  3. 

I  thank  you  for  your  music,  gentlemen. 
Who  is  that  that  spake  ? 

Two  Gentlemen  of  Verona,  iv,  2. 

That  song  to-night 
Will  not  go  from  my  mind.  othello,  iv,  3. 

All  that  we  ask  is  but  a  patient  ear. 

Pope,  Satires,  iii. 

So  may  the  fates  preserve  the  ear  you  lend. 

Pope,  D  UNCI  ad,  iii. 

To  stop  my  ear  to  their  confounded  stuff! 

Pope,  Satires,  vi. 

The  all-composing  hour 
Resistless  falls;  the  Muse  obeys  the  pow'r. 

Pope,  D  UNCI  AD,  iv. 

Your  silence  then  is  better  than  your  spite. 

Pope,  Essay  on  Criticism. 

I  have  not  been  more  pleased  with  a  snapp  of 
musique,  considering  the  circumstances  of  the 
time  and  place,  in  all  my  life  anything  more 
pleasant.  Pepys,  diary,  juiy  27, 1663. 

And  there  heard  both  the  vocall  and  the  in- 
strumental musick,  where  the  little  fellow  stood 
keeping  time.  Pepys,  diary,  nov.  17, 1667. 

O  wearisome  condition  of  humanity. 

Lord  Brooke,  Mustapha,  v. 

^^de"par^?'"    Good  night,  ladies;    good  night,  sweet  ladies; 
good  night,  good  night !  hamlet,  iv,  s- 


QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS  85 

Depart  not  so;  ^*d?wt***" 

Though  this  be  all  do  not  so  quickly  go. 

Richard  II,  i,  2. 

Gentlemen, 
The  penance  lies  on  you  if  these  fair  ladies 
Pass  away  frowning.  henry  viii,  i,  4. 

I  will  most  willingly  attend  your  ladyship. 

Titus  Andronicus.  iv,  i. 

Joy,  gentle  friends !  joy  and  fresh  days  of  love 
Accompany  your  hearts. 

Midsummer  Night's  Dream,  v,  i. 

None  comes  too  early,  none  departs  too  late. 

Pope,  Satires,  ii. 

Get  my  Hoods  and  Tippet,  and  bid  the  Foot- 
man call  a  Cxhair.  Congreve,  Old  Batchelor,  ii,  4. 

Loather  a  hundred  times  to  part  than  die. 

II  Henry  VI,  iii,  2. 


Chapter  IV 

TOBACCO  AND  WINES 

Cigars.  Whose  smokc  like  incense  doth  perfume. 

Titus  Andronicus,  i,  i. 

Without  the  illness  should  attend  it. 

Macbeth,  i,  5. 

How  use  doth  breed  a  habit  in  a  man  ! 

Two  Gentlemen  of  Verona,  v,  4. 

The  god  of  my  idolatry.  romeo  and  juliet,  h,  2. 

When  I  love  thee  not, 
Chaos  is  come  again.  Othello,  ui,  3. 

O  thou  weed 
Who  art  so  lovely  fair  and  smell'st  so  sweet. 

Othello,  iv,  2. 

That  's  meat  and  drink  to  me. 

Merry  Wives  of  Windsor,  i,  i. 

Weeds  wide  enough  to  wrap  a  fairy  in. 

Midsummer  Night's  Dream,  ii,  i. 

I  '11  fume  with  them  !  taming  of  the  shrew,  ii,  i. 

The  fat  weed 
That  roots  itself  in  ease  on  Lethe  wharf 

Hamlet,  i,  5. 


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This  Indian  weed,  now  withered  quite,  Cigars, 

Though  green  at  noon,  cut  down  at  night 

Shows  thy  decay  — 

All  flesh  is  hay : 
Thus  think  and  smoke  tobacco. 

Smoking  Spiritualized. 

Thou  art  e'en  such — 
Gone  with  a  touch : 
Thus  think  and  smoke  tobacco. 

Smoking  Spiritualized. 

And  when  the  smoke  ascends  on  high 

Then  thou  behold'st  the  vanity 
Of  worldly  stuff- 
Gone  with  a  puff: 

Thus  think  and  smoke  tobacco. 

Smoking  Spiritualized. 

And  seest  the  ashes  cast  away 
Then  to  thyself  thou  mayest  say 

That  to  the  dust 

Return  thou  must: 
Thus  think  and  smoke  tobacco. 

Smoking  Spiritualized. 

Whose  raptures  fire  me  and  whose  visions  bless. 

Fope,  Windsor  Forest. 

The  sum  of  earthly  bliss. 

Milton,  Paradise  Lost,  viii. 

The  Indian  weed  ... 

Friend  to  the  spirits  which  with  vapours  bland 

It  gently  mitigates,  companion  fit 

Of  pleasantry  and  wine.  j.  Phiup. 

A  free  school 
For  the  education  of  young  gentlemen, 
To  study  how  to  drink  and  take  tobacco. 

Randolph,  Muses'  Looking-Glass. 


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Cigars.  xhe  spirit  of  wine  and  tobacco  walks  in  your 

brain.  Dekker,  Gull's  Hornbook. 

Most  sweet  attendance  with  tobacco  and  pipes 
of  the  best  sort  shall  be  administered. 

B.  Jonson,  Every  Man  Out  of  his  Humour,  iii,  i. 

Oh !  finer  far 

Than  fame  or  riches  are 

The  graceful  smoke  wreaths  of  this  free  cigar. 

George  Arnold. 

A  spirit  all  compact  of  fire 

Not  gross  to  sink,  but  light  and  will  aspire. 

SJiakspere,  Venus  and  Adonis. 

His  time  is  forever,  everywhere  his  place. 

Cowley,  Friendship  in  Absence. 

Let 's  give  fire  in  the  works  and  noble  vapours. 

B.  Jonson,  Bartholomew  Fair,  ii,  i. 

Never  kneels  but  to  pledge  healths,  nor  prays, 
but  for  a  pipe  of  pudding  tobacco. 

B.  Jonson,  Cynthia's  Revels,  ii,  i. 

You  Still  shall  live  ... 

Where  breath  most  breathes,  even  in  the  mouths 
oi  men.  ^'^a^j/^r^,  sonnets,  ixxxi. 

Of  gentle  soul,  to  human  race  a  friend. 

Pope's  Odyssey,  xix. 

The  Indians  for  their  pastime,  doe  take  the 
smoke  of  the  Tabaco  ...  to  see  the  visions  and 
things  that  represent  unto  them  that  wherein 
they  doe  delight. 

Nicholas  Monardes,  Joyfull  Newes  (1577). 

Though  I  profess  myself  her  adorer,  not  her 
iriend.  Cymbeline,  i,  4. 


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And  sighed  my  English  breath  in  foreign  clouds.  cigars. 

Richard  II,  iii,  1. 

Shall  burn  thee  up  and  thou  shalt  turn 

To  ashes.  king  John,  iii,  i. 

Practice  is  the  best  of  all  instructors. 

Publius  Syrus,  Maxims. 

By  Hercules  I  do  hold  it  and  will  affirm  it,  to 
be  the  most  sovereign  and  precious  herb  that  ever 
the  earth  tendered  to  the  use  of  man. 

B.  Jonson,  Every  Man  in  his  Humour,  iii,  2. 

He  lets  me  have  good  tobacco,  and  he  does 
not  sophisticate  it  with  sack-lees  or  oil. 

Ben  Jonson,  The  Alchemist,  i. 

I  have  my  three  sorts  of  tobacco  in  my  pocket, 
my  hght  by  me,  and  thus  I  begin. 

B.  Jonson,  Cynthia's  Revels,  Induction. 

Come,  look  not  pale  !     Observe  me  / 

B.  Jonson,  Cynthia's  Revels,  ii,  i. 

It  is  become  ...  a  point  of  good  fellowship, 
and  he  that  will  refuse  to  take  a  pipe  of  tobacco 
among  his  fellows  ...  is  accounted  peevish  and 

no  good  company.  King  James,  Counterblast  to  Tobacco. 

There  can  no  great  smoke  arise,  but  there 
must  be  some  fire.  Lyiy,  Euphues. 

An  art  worthy  the  knowledge  and  practice  of 

a  wise  man.  Walton,  complete  angler,  i,  I. 

Here  's  most  herculanean  tobacco  !  ha'  some, 
acquaintance  ?  Dekker. 


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Cigars.  Thou  silent  power,  whose  welcome  sway- 

Charms  every  anxious  thought  away.       Ak^?iside. 

Lo,  the  poor  Indian  !  po^e,  essay  on  man,  i. 

And  what  comes  then  is  master  of  the  field ! 

PoJ>e,  Moral  Essays,  L 

Sweet  to  the  world,  and  grateful  to  the  skies. 

Pope,  Epilogue  to  Satires,  ii. 

Soft  peace  she  brings  :  wherever  she  arrives 
She  builds  our  quiet.  Prwr,  charity. 

E*en  in  our  ashes  live  their  wonted  fires. 

Gray,  Elegy. 

Our  best  remains  are  ashes. 

Francis,  Tr.  of  Horace's  Odes,  iv,  7. 

Blesses  his  stars  and  thinks  it  luxury. 

Addison,  Cato,  i,  4. 

A  lasting,  a  sacred  delight.  Cow^er,  catharina. 

For  thy  sake,  tobacco,  I 
Would  do  anything  but  die. 

Charles  Lamb,  Farewell  to  Tobacco. 

A  noiseless  wing 
To  waft  me  from  distraction.  Byron,  childeHarold,  ih,  85. 

Sublime  tobacco  !  which  from  east  to  west 
Cheers  the  tar's  labour  or  the  Turkman's  rest. 

Byron,  The  Island,  ii. 

Divine  in  hookas,  glorious  in  a  pipe  .  .  . 
Yet  thy  true  lovers  more  admire  by  far 
Thy  naked  beauties  —  give  me  a  cigar ! 

Byron,  The  Island,  ii. 


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The  man  who  smokes  thinks  like  a  sage  and  cigars, 

acts  like  a  Samaritan. 

Bulwer  Lytton,  Night  and  Morning,  vi. 

Me  let  the  sound  of  great  Tobaccoes  praise 
A  pitch  above  those  love-sick  Poets  raise. 

Metamorphosis  of  Tabacco,  1602. 

Let  me  adore  with  my  thrice-happy  pen 
The  sweet  and  sole  delight  of  mortal  man. 

Metamorphosis  of  Tabacco,  1602. 

It   hath    certain    melHfluous    delicacie   which 
deliteth  the  senses  and  spirits  of  man  with  a 

mindful  oblivion.  W.  Barclay,  Nepenthes,  1614. 

Heaven's  last,  best  gift,  my  ever  new  delight ! 

Milton,  Paradise  Lost,  v. 

Pleas'd  me,  long  choosing  and  beginning  late. 

Milton,  Paradise  Lost,  ix. 

0  fairest  flower  !  no  sooner  blown  but  blasted. 

Milton. 

And  feel  that  I  am  happier  than  I  knew ! 

Milton,  Paradise  Lost,  viii. 

Thy  clouds  all  other  clouds  dispel. 

And  lap  me  in  delight.  c.  sj>rague.  To  my  cigar. 

To  win  the  secret  of  a  weed's  plain  heart. 

Lowell,  Sonnets,  xxv. 

But  for  your  health  and  your  digestion  sake  cigarettes  be- 

.  r  1'  »     1  1  tween  courses 

An  aiter-dmner  s  breath,      troilus  and  cressida,  li,  3.     or  with  coffee. 
Swift  as  a  shadow,  short  as  any  dream. 

Midsummer  Night's  Dream,  i,  1. 


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Cigarettes  be-  A  breath  thou  art, 

tween  courses    /--  m  n     t  i  •     n 

or  with  Coffee.  Servilc  to  all  the  skyey  influences. 

Measure  for  Measure,  iii,  i. 

But  with  my  breath  I  can  revive  it. 

King  John,  iv,  i. 

I  never  knew  tobacco  taken  as  a  parenthesis 

before.  B.  Jonson,  every  Man  Out  of  his  Humour,  iii,  3. 

For  one  puff  more,  and  in  that  puff  expires ! 

Pope,  Moral  Essays,  i. 

A  breath  revives  him  or  a  breath  o'erthrows. 

Pope,  Satires,  v. 

She  sparkled,  was  exhaled  and  went  to  heaven. 

Young,  Night  Thoughts,  v. 

I  am  the  very  slave  of  circumstance 

And  impulse — borne  away  with  every  breath  ! 

Byron,  Sardanapalus,  iv,  i. 

How  fading  are  the  joys  we  dote  upon  ! 

John  Norris,  The  Parting. 

Like  Angels'  visits  short  and  bright. 

X,  John  Norris,  The  Parting. 

WINES,  ETC. 

With  Dinner.        Qnc  that  loves  a  cup  of  hot  wine  with  not  a 
drop  of  allaying  Tiber  in  't.  coriolanus,  ii,  i. 

Is  it  so  nominated  in  the  bond  ? 

Merchant  of  Venice,  iv,  i. 

Our  trusty  friend,  unless  I  be  deceived. 

Ill  Henry  VI,  iv,  7. 

He  *11  make  the  eyes  of  your  understanding 
see  double,  and  teach  you  to  speak  fluently,  and 
utter  your  mind  in  abundance.    Randolph,  aristippus. 


QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS  93 

Soft  !    who  comes  here  ?  Juuus  C^sar,  iU,  i.         "^»*^  Dinner. 

Whom  I  commend  to  you  as  a  noble  friend  of 
mine.  cymbeline,  i,  4. 

Yet  I  love  good  wine, 
As  I  love  health  and  joy  of  heart,  but  temper- 
ately. Beaumont  and  Fletcher,  Wit  without  Money,  iii. 

Wine  enough  Cleopatra's  health  to  drink. 

Antony  and  Cleopatra,  i,  2. 

We  '11  teach  you  to  drink  deep  ere  you  depart. 

Hamlet,  i,  2. 

We  '11  have  it  all  in  drink;  let  meat  and  lodg- 
ing go;  they  are  transitory,  and  show  men  mere- 
ly mortal.  Beaumont  attd  Fletcher,  The  Scornful  Lady,  i. 

Fetch  me  a  quart  of  sack;  put  a  toast  in  't. 

Merry  Wives  of  Windsor,  iii,  5. 

Drink  deep  or  taste  not !        Pope,  essay  on  criticism. 

Virtue  is  her  own  reward,  is  but  a  cold  princi- 
ple. Sir  Thomas  Browne,  Religio  Medici. 

O,  for  the  Universe,  not  a  Drop  more  I  beseech 

you.  Congreve,  Double  Dealer,  i,  5. 

And  cloudy  care  has  often  took 
A  gentle  beamy  smile  reflected  from  thy  look. 

Cowley,  To  Light. 

And  wanting  him  to  loose  the  sacred  seal. 

Cowper,  Conversation. 


94  QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS 

With  Dinner,    x^g  j^orc  thou  stir  it  the  worse  it  will  be. 

Don  Quixote,  iii,  8. 

You  too  be  wise,  my  Plancus :  life's  worst  cloud 
Will  melt  in  air,  by  mellow  wine  allay'd. 

Horace,  Odes,  i,  7.* 

From  Sabine  jar  bring  forth  the  sparkling  wine, 
Four  blooming  springs  have  made  it  clear  and 

good.  Horace,  Odes,  i,  9. 

Some  sweet  oblivious  antidote.  Macbeth,  v,  3. 

Bid  that  welcome 
Which  comes  to  punish  us,  and  we  punish  it. 

Antony  and  Cleopatra,  iv,  14. 

This  is  nectar,  the  very  nepenthe  the  gods  were 

drunk  with.  Randolph,  Aristippus. 

The  cry  is  still  "They  come  ! "  Macbeth,  v,  5. 

Let  's  do  it  after  the  high  Roman  fashion. 

Antony  and  Cleopatra,  iv,  15. 

I  have  immortal  longings  in  me. 

Antony  and  Cleopatra,  v,  2. 
Potations  pottle-deep.  Othello,  ii,  3. 

He  calls  for  wine.  taming  of  the  shrew,  ih,  2. 

Come,  come:  good  wine  is  a  good  familiar 
creature,  if  it  be  well  used;  exclaim  no  more 
against  it.  Othello,  a,  3. 

A  cup  of  wine,  sir? 

A  cup  of  wine  that  's  brisk  and  fine. 

II  Henry  IV,  v,  3. 


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When  flowing  cups  pass  swiftly  round  with  Dinne». 

With  no  allaying  Thames.  Lovelace^  To  Althea. 

Old  wine  to  drink! 
Ay,  give  the  slippery  juice 
That  drippeth  from  the  grape  thrown  loose 

Within  the  tun. 

Robert  H.  Messinger,  Give  me  the  Old. 

I  caused  two  bottles  of  wine  to  be  carried  from 
the  Rose  Taverne ;  that  was  drunk  up,  and  I  had 
not  the  wit  to  let  them  know  at  table  that  it  was 
I  that  paid  for  them,  and  so  I  lost  my  thanks  for 

them.  PeJ>ys,  Diary,  February  26,  1660. 

With  that  a  Wizard  old  his  cup  extends. 

Pope,  DuNCiAD,  iv. 

A  still  and  dumb-discoursive  devil 
That  tempts  most  cunningly. 

Troilus  and  Cressida,  iv,  4. 

The  more  you  drink,  the  more  you  crave. 

Pope,  Satires,  vi. 

Good  wine  needs  no  bush,    as  you  like  it.  epilogue. 

'T  is  the  plump  grape's  immortal  juice 

That  does  this  happiness  produce.      charies  Cotton. 

I  prithee,  take  the  cork  out  of  thy  mouth,  that  I 
may  drink.  As  You  like  it,  iii,  2. 

Speed  the  soft  intercourse  from  soul  to  soul. 

Pope,  Eloisa  to  Abelard. 

But  soft — by  regular  approach — not  yet. 

Pope,  Moral  Essays,  iv. 

Divine,  nectareous  juice.  Pope,  tr.  of  Odyssey,  ix. 


9^  QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS 

With  Dinner.    Bo^n  but  to  banquet  and  to  drain  the  bowl. 

Pope,  Tr.  of  Odyssey,  x. 

Drain  we  the  cup. 
Friend,  art  afraid  ? 
Spirits  are  laid 
In  the  Red  Sea. 
Mantle  it  up; 
Empty  it  yet ; 
Let  us  forget, 
Round  the  old  tree. 

Thackeray,  The  Mahogany  Tree. 

This  wine  should  be  eaten,  it  is  too  good  to  be 

drunk.  Swi/t,  Poutb  conversations,  ii. 

Ale,  Beer,  etc.        J  wonder  what  virtue  is  in  this  pewter-faced 
author,  that  it  should  make  every  one  fall  in  love 

with  it  so  deeply  ?  Randolph,  Aristippus. 

I  gulp  my  sorrows  down 
Or  see  them  drown 
In  foamy  draughts  of  old  nut-brown. 

George  Arnold. 

A  pot  of  good  double  beer,  neighbor;   drink 
and  fear  not.  ii  henry  vi,  a,  3. 

I  do  now  remember  the  poor  creature,  small 
beer.  11  henry  iv,  u,  2. 

And  brought  of  mighty  ale  a  large  quart 

Chaucer,  Miller's  Tale. 

I  can't  cork  down  my  indignation  ;   I  froth  up 
with  fury ;  I  am  pale  with  wrath  and  bitter  with 

scorn.  Thackeray,  Notes  of  a  Week's  Holiday. 


QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS  97 


Bring  up  the  great  tankard  full,  of  October    Aie,  Beer,  etc. 

or  Sir  John.  Swi/t,  polite  conversations,  n. 

Ale  is  meat,  drink  and  cloth ;  it  will  make  a 
cat  speak  and  a  wise  man  dumb. 

Swift,  Polite  Conversations,  iii. 


And  Alma  Mater  lie  dissolv'd  in  Port.  Miscellaneous. 

Pope,  D  UNCI  AD,  iii. 

From  humble  Port  to  imperial  Tokay. 

Townley,  High  Life  below  Stairs,  ii,  i. 

He  drains  his  draughts  of  Rhenish  down. 

Hamlet,  i,  4. 

Why,  this  same  Madeira  Wine  has  made  me 
as  light  as  a  Grasshopper,  congreve,  old  batchelor,  iv,  9. 


Nothing  but  Claret  wine.  ii  henrv  vi,  iv,  6.  ciaret. 

Your  honor's  claret  is  good  enough  for  me. 

Swift,  Polite  Conversations,  ii. 

Then  to  avoid  the  gross  absurdity 
Of  a  dry  bottle,  'cause  there  must  some  blood 
Be  spilt  (on  th'  enemies'  side,  I  mean)  you  may 
Have  there  a  rundlet  of  brisk  Claret,  and 

As  much  of  Alicant.      W.  Cartwright,  The  Ordinary,  ii,  i. 

Whereby  it  is  a  plain  case,  that  Orthodox  is  a 
hard  word,  and  Greek  for  Claret. 

Congreve,  Way  of  the  World,  iv,  ix. 
Cold  and  dry.  MUton,  Paradise  Lost,  x.  Champagne. 

7 


98 


QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS 


Champagne.  Thou  cutt'st  my  head  off  with  a  golden  axe. 

Romeo  and  Juliet,  iii,  3. 
Off  with  his  head.  Richard  III,  iii,  4. 


Of  spirit  so  still  and  quiet. 


Othello,  i,  3. 


Kings  it  makes  gods,  and  meaner  creatures,  kings. 

Richard  III,  v,  2. 


Sparkling  in  a  golden  cup. 


Ill  Henry  VI,  ii,  5. 


Lily  on  liquid  roses  floating — 
So  floats  yon  foam  o'er  pink  champagne. 

John  Kenyan,  Champagne  Rose. 

There  shallow  draughts  intoxicate  the  brain. 

Pope,  Essay  on  Criticism. 


Burgundy;        Bravc  Burguudy,  undoubted  hope  of  France  ! 

I  Henry  VI,  iii,  3. 

Doubtless  Burgundy  will  yield  him  help. 

Ill  Henry  VI,  iv,  6. 

The  vines  of  France  and  milk  of  Burgundy. 

King  Lear,  i,  i. 

Half  a  dozen  flasks  of 
The  red  Burgundy  marked  a  thousand. 

Farqufiar,  The  Inconstant,  v. 


Sherry.  Dry  as  the  remainder  biscuit 

After  a  voyage.  As  You  Like  It,  ii,  7. 

With  excellent  endeavour  of  drinking  good  and 
good  store  of  fertile  sherris.  ii  Henry  iv,  iv,  3. 


QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS 


99 


Mellowing  with  years, 
Like  Amontillado  Sherry. 

T.  B.  Aldrich,  Vintage  1826. 

There  was  no  lack  of  old  Sherris  sack, 
Of  Hippocras  fine,  or  of  Malmsey  bright. 

Barham,  Ingoldsby  Legends. 


Sherry. 


What  a  case  am  I  in  !  as  you  like  it,  epilogue. 


Liqueurs. 


Sweet,  sweet,  sweet  poison  for  the  age's  tooth. 

King  John,  i,  i. 

Which  draught  to  me  were  cordial. 

Winter's  Tale,  1,  2. 

That  confection 
Which  I  gave  him  for  cordial.  cymbeline,  v,  5. 

Man  wants  but  little  here  below 

Nor  wants  that  little  long.         Goldsmith,  the  hermit. 

His  orient  liquor  in  a  crystal  glass.      Muton,  Comus. 

In  small  proportion  we  just  beauties  see 
And  in  short  measures  life  may  perfect  be. 

B.  Jonson,  Good  Life. 


For  this  relief  much  thanks. 


Hamlet,  i,  i. 


Cocktails. 


Certainly  this  is  a  duty,  not  a  sin. 

John  Wesley,  Sermons,  no.  92. 

Thank  you,  good  sir,  I  owe  you  one, 

Colman  the  Younger,  The  Poor  Gentleman,  i,  2. 


lOO  QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS 

Cocktails.         For  it  stirs  the  blood  in  an  old  man's  heart. 
And  makes  his  pulses  fly. 

N.  P.  IVz'lUs,  Saturday  Afternoon. 

The  bearings  of  this  observation  lays  in  the 

application  on  it.  Dickens,  Dombey  and  Son,  xxHL 

Barkis  is  Willin*.  Dkkens,  David  Copperfield,  v. 

Drink,  pretty  creature,  drink  ! 

Wordsworth,  The  Pet  Lamb. 

About  some  act 
That  has  no  relish  of  salvation  in  't.    hamlet,  iu,  2. 

That  we  would  do, 
We  should  do  when  we  would ;  for  this  "  would  " 
changes.  Hamlet,  iv,  ^. 

Poor  Tom  's  a- cold  !  king  lear,  m,  4. 

It  must  be  done  like  lightning. 

B.  Jonson,  Every  Man  in  his  Humour,  iv,  5. 

But  this  denoted  a  foregone  conclusion. 

Othello,  iii,  3. 

A  thing  of  custom;  —  't  is  no  other.  Macbeth,  iii,  4. 

What  man  dare,  I  dare  !  Macbeth,  in,  4. 

My  firm  nerves 
Shall  never  tremble.  Macbeth,  iii,  4. 

Even-handed  justice 
Commends  the  ingredients  of  our  poison'd  chalice 

To  our  own  lips.  Macbeth,  i.  7. 


QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS  lOl 


One  truth  is  clear :     Whatever  is,  is  right. 

Pope,  Essay  on  Man,  L 

Suit  the  action  to  the  word.  hamlet,  m,  2. 


Plato,  thou  reasonest  well. 
Else  whence  this  pleasing  hope,  this  fond  desire  ? 

Addison,  Cato,  v,  i. 

His  little  nameless,  unremembered  acts. 

Wordsworth,  Tintern  Revisited. 

I  am  somewhat  dainty  in  making  a  Resolution, 
because  when  I  make  it,  I  keep  it. 

Congreve,  Way  of  the  World,  iii,  15. 

Will  you  drink  anything  .  .  .  before  you  eat  ? 
Dinner  's  almost  ready. 

Congreve,  Way  of  the  World,  iii,  16. 

Amiable  weakness  of  human  nature. 

Gibbon,  Decline  and  Fall  of  the  Roman  Empire,  xiv. 

Exhilarate  the  spirit,  and  restore 

The  tone  of  languid  nature.  cow^er,  the  task,  l 

How  doth  the  little  busy  bee 
Improve  each  shining  hour  ! 

Waits,  Divine  Songs,  xx. 

I  have  been  there  and  still  would  go. 

Watts,  Divine  Songs,  xxviuL 

My  bane  and  antidote  are  both  before  me. 

'  Addison,  Cato,  v,  i. 

T  is  as  easy  as  lying.  Hamlet,  iii,  2. 

They  fool  me  to  the  top  of  my  bent,   hamlet,  iii,  2, 
So  gloz'd  the  tempter !  Muton,  paradise  lost,  ix. 


Cocktails. 


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Cocktails.         Even  at  your  side,  sir,  and  before  your  eyes. 

Cowper,  Truth. 

"For  what?"    "An'  please  you,  sir,  to  see  a 

friend."  C^w/^r,  Epistle,  iii. 

To  make  mankind  in  conscious  virtue  bold. 

Po/>e,  Prologue  to  Addison's  Cato. 

I  pray  thee  let  me  and  my  fellow  have  a  haire 
of  the  dog  that  bit  us  last  night. 

Hey  wood,  Proverbs,  i,  ii. 

Encourag'd  at  the  sight  of  thee, 
To  the  cheek  colour  comes,  and  firmness  to  the 

knee.  Cowley,  to  light. 

A  modern  ecstasy.  Macbeth,  iv,  3. 

That  would  have  made  Quintilian  stare  and  gasp. 

Milton,  On  Detraction. 

The  hand  that  hath  made  you  fair  hath  made 

you  good.  Measure  for  Measure,  iii,  i. 

Prescribes,    attends,   the    medicine    makes,    and 

gives  !  Pope,  Moral  Essays,  iii. 

My  fancy  's  still  awake 

Thoughtful  of  drink.        J.  Phmps,  the  Splendid  Shilling. 

What  will  Mrs.  Grundy  say  ? 

Thomas  Morton,  Speed  the  Plough,  i,  i. 

An  auburn  drink  compose. 
Wholesome,  of  deathless  fame.  j.  Phiups. 

Such  is  the  custom  of  Branksome  Hall. 

Scott,  Lay  of  the  Last  Minstrel,  i,  7.  ' 


QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS  IO3 


Minister'st  a  potion  unto  me  Cocktaiis. 

That  thou  wouldst  tremble  to  receive  thyself? 

Pericles,  i,  2. 

I  find  the  settled  thirst  still  gnawing. 

J.  Philips,  The  Splendid  Shilling. 

Can  you  eat  roots,  and  drink  cold  water  ? 

TiMON  OF  Athens,  v,  i. 

He  calls  for  something  bitter,  something  sour. 

Pope,  Imitations  of  Horace,  ii,  2. 

Give  me  some  drink ;  and  bid  the  apothecary 
Bring  the  strong  poison.  11  henry  vi,  iii,  3. 

Come,  I  will  go  drink  with  you  but  I  cannot  tarry 
dinner.  11  henry  iv,  iii,  2. 

Once  more  unto  the  breach,  dear  friends,  once 
more  !  henry  v,  iii,  1. 

'T  is  a  stinger  ! 

Middleion,  More  Dissemblers  Besides  Women,  iii,  2. 


'T  is  not  so  deep  as  a  well,  nor  so  wide  as  a     Punch  bowI. 
church-door ;  but  't  is  enough,  't  will  serve. 

Romeo  and  Juliet,  iii,  i. 

A  thing  devised  by  the  enemy.       Richard  iii,  v,  3.  Punch. 

A  weak  invention  of  the  enemy. 

Richard  III,  v,  3  (Gibber's  version). 

Fill  Up  the  bowl  then,  fill  it  high. 
Fill  all  the  glasses  there ;  for  why 
Should  every  creature  drink  but  I, 
Why,  man  of  morals,  tell  me  why? 

A.  Cowley,  Anacreontics,  Drinking. 


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Punch.  And   damn'd   be   him   that   first   cries   *'  Hold, 

enough  !  "  Macbeth,  v,  8. 

And  since  it  is  the  nature  of  light  things  to  as- 
cend, what  better  way  or  more  agreeing  to  na- 
ture can  be  invented,  whereby  one  might  ascend 
to  the  height  of  knowledge,  than  a  light  head  ? 

Randolph,  Aristippus. 

The  receipt  hath  been  subscribed  unto,  by  all 
those  that  have  had  to  do  with  simples,  with  this 
moth-eaten  motto  probatum  est. 

Dekker,  Gull's  Hornbook. 

Can  we  drink  too  much  of  that,  whereof  to 
taste  too  little  tumbles  us  into  a  church  yard  ? 

Dekker,  Gull's  Hornbook. 

The  villainy  you  teach  me  I  will  execute,  and 
it  shall  go  hard  but  I  will  better  the  instruction. 

Merchant  of  Venice,  iii,  i. 

I  may  justly  say,  with  the  hook-nosed  fellow 
of  Rome,  '*  I  came,  saw,  and  overcame." 

II  Henry  IV,  iv,  3. 

He  does  it  with  a  better  grace  but  I  do  it  more^ 
natural.  twelfth  night,  u,  3. 

Yet  have  I  something  in  me  dangerous. 

Hamlet,  v,  i. 

Thy  wish  was  father  ...  to  that  thought ! 

II  Henry  IV,  iv,  5. 

Self-love,  my  liege,  is  not  so  vile  a  sin 

As  self-neglecting.  Henry  v,  ii,  4. 

The  **why  "  is  plain  as  way  to  parish  church. 

As  You  Like  It,  ii,  7. 


QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS  lOJ 


Now  let  thy  friendly  hand  Punch. 

Put  strength  enough  to  't.  king  lear,  iv,  6. 

As  headstrong  as  an  allegory  on  the  banks  of 

the  Nile.  Sheridan,  The  Rivals,  v,  3. 

Preserving  the  sweetness   of  proportion  and 
expressing  itself  beyond  expression. 

B.  Jonson,  Masque  of  Hymen. 

Flow  gently,  I  '11  sing  thee  a  song  in  thy  praise. 

Burns,  Flow  gently.  Sweet  Afton. 

Serenely  pure  and  yet  divinely  strong. 

Po^e,  Satires,  vi. 

Be  to  her  virtues  very  kind, 

Be  to  her  faults  a  little  blind.  Prwr, 

Warmly  pure  and  sweetly  strong. 

Collins,  To  Simplicity. 

Whatever  is  best  administered  is  best. 

Pope,  Essay  on  Man,  lii. 

There  is  something  in  this  more  than  natural. 

Hamlet,  ii,  2. 

Though  this  be  madness,  yet  there   is  method 

in    t.  Hamlet,  ii,  2. 

There   is   nothing   either   good   or   bad,   but 
thinking  makes  it  so.  hamlet,  h,  2. 

He  that  sips  often  at  last  drinks  it  up. 

Cowper,  Progress  of  Error. 

Nothing  great  was  ever  achieved  without  en- 
thusiasm. Emerson,  Circles. 

The  silver  stream  her  virgin  coldness  keeps. 

Pope,  Windsor  Forest. 


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QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS 


Punch. 


The  torrent  's  smoothness,  ere  it  dash  below ! 

Campbell,  Gertrude  of  Wyoming,  iii,  5. 


Brandy.  Tq  awakc  your  dormouse  valour,  to  put  fire  in 

your  heart.  twelfth  night,  iu,  2. 

As  for  the  brandy,  "  nothing  extenuate,"  and 
the  water,  "put  nought  in  in  malice." 

Douglas  Jerrold,  Shakspere  Grog. 

Put  this  in  any  liquid  thing  you  will. 

And  drink  it  off.  Romeo  and  Juliet,  V,  X. 

The  real  Simon  Pure. 

Mrs.  Centlivre,  A  Bold  Stroke  for  a  Wife,  v. 

The  Red  Ratafia  does  your  Ladyship  mean,  or 
the  Cherry  Brandy  ?    congreve,  way  of  the  world,  iii,  i. 


Whisky. 


Stands  Scotland  where  it  did  ? 


Macbeth,  iv,  3. 


Peat  whiskey  hot. 
Tempered  with  well-boiled  water ! 
These  make  the  long  night  shorter. 

R.  H.  Messinger,  Give  me  the  Old. 

An  enemy  unto  you  all!  ii  henry  vi,  i,  i. 

Curse    all   his    virtues !      They  've  undone    his 

country.  Addison,  Cato,  iv,  4. 

Something  given  that  way. 

Beaumont  and  Fletcher,  The  Lovers'  Progress,  i,  i. 

Inspiring,  bold  John  Barleycorn, 

What  dangers  thou  canst  make  us  scorn ! 

Bums,  Tam  o'  Shanter. 


QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS  lOJ 

Now  's  the  day,  and  now  's  the  hour.  Whisky. 

Bums,  Bannockburn. 

O'er  a'  the  ills  o'  life  victorious.  Bums,  tam  o*  Shanter. 
Gentle  Shepherd,  tell  me  where.  s.  Howard. 

My  nearest 

And  dearest  enemy. 

Middleton,  Anything  for  a  Quiet  Life,  v,  x. 

Seasoned  hfe  of  man  preserved  and  stored  up. 

Milton,  Areopagitica. 

Let  us  sacrifice  to  the  Muses.  Plutarch. 

T  is  nothing  when  you  are  used  to  it. 

Swift,  Polite  Conversations,  iii. 

There  's  nothing  like  being  used  to  a  thing. 

Sheridan,  The  Rivals,  v,  3. 
What  's  one  man*S  poison,  Signor,  Miscellaneous. 

Is  another's  meat  or  drink. 

Beaumont  and  Fletcher,  Love's  Cure,  iii,  2. 

^      ^  The  lemon 

To  vinous  spirits  added,  (  heavenly  drink  ! ) 

J.  Philips. 
ICED  DRINKS 

And  he  that  strives  to  touche  a  starre  Mint  juiep. 

Oft  stumbles  at  a  Strawe.  Spenser,  Faerie  Queene. 

This  cordial  julep  here, 
That  flames  and  dances  in  his  crystal  bounds. 

Milton,  Com  us. 


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o  u??*"""^*  The  delighted  spirit 

Cobbler,  etc.        rr.     ,       ,       .      /•  n        i  •  i 

To  bathe  in  fiery  floods,  or  to  reside 
In  thrilling  region  of  thick-ribbed  ice. 

Measure  for  Measure,  ili,  i. 

When  taken 

To  be  well  shaken. 

Colman  the  Younger,  The  Newcastle  Apothecary. 

Eft-soones  they  heard  a  most  melodious  sound. 

Spenser,  Faerie  Queene. 

Fie !     This  is  hot  weather,  gentlemen. 

II  Henry  IV,  iii,  2. 

Which  is  not  amiss  to  cool  a  man's  stomach 
this  hot  weather.  ii  henry  vi,  iv,  lo. 

Comfort  me  with  cold.  king  John,  v,  7. 

Out  again  to  the  Rose  taverne,  and  there  I 
did  give  them  a  tankard  of  cool  drink,  .  .  .  the 
weather  being  very  hot.         Pepys,  Diary,  May  14, 1668. 

A  grateful  mixture  forms 
Of  tart  and  sweet.  j.  Phmps. 

Thou  artificial  wines  shalt  drain 
Of  icy  taste  ;  that  in  mid  fervors  best 
Slake  craving  thirst  and  mitigate  the  day. 

J.  Philips. 

Thou  'rt  indefatigably  bent 
To  toil,  and  omnifarious  drinks  wouldst  brew. 

J.  Philips. 

Though  deep  yet  clear;   though  gentle,  yet  not 

dull; 
Strong  without  rage  ;  without  overflowing,  full. 

Sir  John  Denhant,  Cooper's  Hill. 


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When  they  are  thirsty  fools  would  fain  have      cobbie7,^etc. 

drink  !  love's  labour's  Lost,  v,  2. 

And  purer  spirits  swell  the  sprightly  flood. 

Pope,  Windsor  Forest. 

Whose  liquid  murmur  heard  new  thirst  excites. 

Milton,  Paradise  Lost,  viL 

Then  methought  I  heard  a  mellow  sound. 

Tennyson,  Vision  of  Sin. 


Chapter  V 

TOASTS 

The  Guest.  Let  him  be  so  entertained  amongst  you  as 

suits,   with  gentlemen   of   your  knowing,   to   a 
stranger  of  his  quality.  Cymbeune,  i,  4. 

I  beseech  you   all  be  better  known  to  this 
gentleman.  cymbeune,  i,  4. 

The  true  knight  of  Learning,  the  world  holds  him 

dear  — 
Love  bless  him,  Joy  crown  him,  God  speed  his 

career.  O.  W.  Holmes,  A  Parting  Health. 

A  diligent  lecturer  deserves  eightpence  a  pint 

tuition.  Randolph,  Aristippus. 

The  sense  to  value  riches  with  the  art 
To  enjoy  them,  and  the  virtue  to  impart. 

Pope,  Moral  Essays,  iii. 

Almost  to  all  things  could  he  turn  his  hand. 

Tennyson,  Enoch  Arden. 

Thou  'rt  a  scholar;  let  us  therefore  eat  and  drink. 

Twelfth  Night,  ii,  3. 


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This  do  I  drink  to  thee.  Romeo  and  juuet,  iv,  3.  "^^^  ^"^^*- 

Has  life  a  brighter  hour 
Than  waits  the   chosen   guest  who  knows  his 

power  ?  O.  W.  Holmes,  The  Banker's  Dinner. 

Then,  sliding  gently  from  his  own  display- 
He  laughs  the  learned  dullness  all  away. 

O.  W.  Holmes,  The  Banker's  Dinner. 

Dangle.  He  has  a  ready  turn  for  ridicule  — • 
his  wit  costs  him  nothing. 

Sir  Fret,  No,  egad, — or  I  should  wonder  how 
he  came  by  it !  sheridan,  the  critic,  l 

We  must  receive  him 
According  to  the  honor  of  his  sender. 

Cymbeline,  ii,  3. 

Yet  reverence, 
That  angel  of  the  world,  doth  make  distinction 
Of  place  between  high  and  low.        cymbeline,  iv,  2. 

Thou  wilt  say  anon  he  is  some  kin  to  thee, 
Thou  spend'st  such  high-day  wit  in  praising  him. 

Merchant  of  Venice,  ii,  9. 

High  in  name  and  power, 
Higher  than  both  in  blood  and  life. 

Antony  and  Cleopatra,  i,  2. 

Thy  spirit  which  keeps  thee  is 
Noble,  courageous,  high,  unmatchable. 

Antony  and  Cleopatra,  ii,  3. 

This  gentleman  is  happily  arrived. 

My  mind  presumes,  for  his  own  good  and  ours* 

Taming  of  the  Shrew,  i,  2. 


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The  Guest.  L^^.  >g  ^qqj-  ^jm  and  receive  him. 

Lo,  where  he  comes !  othello,  h,  i. 

Here  'S  our  chief  guest.  Macbeth,  ui,  I. 

You  are  wisely  silent 
In  your  own  worth,  and  therefore  *t  were  a  sin 

For- others  to  be  so.  Jiandol/k,  Mvsks'  Looking-Glass. 

It  is  requisite  that  a  gentleman  should  not  al- 
ways be  plodding  in  one  art,  but  rather  be  a  gen- 
eral scholar,  that  is,  to  have  a  lick  at  all  sorts  of 
learning,  and  away.  ifekker,  gull's  hornbook. 

I  will  not  rob  you  of  any  of  the  credit :  I  am 
but  a  feeble  instrument ;  you  are  an  Engineer. 

Wycherley,  Love  in  a  Wood,  i. 

I  awoke  one  morning  and  found  myself  famous. 

Byron. 

I  courted  fame  but  as  a  spur  to  brave 

And  honest  deeds.  David  Maiutt. 

Your  name  is  great 
In  mouths  of  wisest  censure.  othello,  ii,  3. 

Here  is  a  man — but 't  is  before  his  face  ;  I  will 
be  silent !  Troilus  and  Cressida,  h,  3. 

This  is  a  traveler.  Sir,  knows  men  and  manners, 
and  has  plow'd  up  the  sea  so  far,  'till  both  the 
poles  have  knock'd. 

Beaumont  and  Fletcher,  The  Scornful  Lady,  i. 

This  most  gallant,  illustrate  and  learned  gentle- 
man. Love's  Labour's  Lost,  v,  i.  , 


QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS  H^ 

A  man  that  fortune's  buffets  and  rewards       "^^^  ^"^s*- 
Hast  ta'en  with  equal  thanks.  Hamlet,  iii,  2. 

What  imports  the  nomination  of  this  gentleman? 

Hamlet,  v,  2. 

Great  clerks  have  purposed 
To  greet  me  with  premeditated  welcomes. 

Midsummer  Night's  Dream,  v,  i. 

Right  welcome  sir ! 
Ere  we  depart  we  '11  share  a  bounteous  time. 

TiMON  OF  Athens,  i,  i. 

Strength  of  limb  and  policy  of  mind, 
Ability  in  means  and  choice  of  friends. 

Much  Ado,  iv,  i. 

He  hath  a  tear  for  pity  and  a  hand 
Open  as  day  for  melting  Charity. 

II  Henry  IV,  iv,  4. 

Eminence,  wealth,  sovereignty ; 
Which,  to  say  sooth,  are  blessings. 

Henry  VIII,  ii,  3. 

More  is  thy  due  than  more  than  all  can  pay. 

Macbeth,  i,  4. 

Not  that  we  think  us  worthy  such  a  guest, 
But  that  your  worth  will  dignify  our  feast. 

B.  Jonson,  Epigrams,  ci. 

He  that  should  search  all  glories  of  the  gown, 
And  steps  of  all  raised  servants  of  the  crown. 
He  could  not  find  than  thee,  of  all  that  store. 
Whom  fortune  aided  less  or  virtue  more. 

B.  JoTtson,  Underwoods. 

By  merit  raised 
To  that  bad  eminence.  Muton,  paradise  lost,  u. 

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114  QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS 


The  Guest.  J  ^q  ^ot  glvc  you  to  posterity  as  a  pattern  to 

imitate,  but  as  an  example  to  deter. 

Junius,  Letter  xii. 

May  you  live  all  the  days  of  your  life ! 

Sw//i(,  Polite  Conversations,  li. 

A  companion  that  is  cheerful  ...  is  worth  gold. 

Walton,  Complete  Angler,  iii. 

Be  every  birthday  more  a  winner, 

Digest  his  thirty-thousandth  dinner.    Poj>e,  To  — . 

The  nose  of  haut-gout,  and  the  tip  of  taste. 

Pope,  Moral  Essays,  ii. 

We  attend  thy  reverend  length  of  days 
With  benediction  and  with  praise. 
And  hail  thee  in  our  public  ways 
Like  some  great  spirit  fam'd  in  ages  old. 

Akenside,  Odes,  vii. 

The  soul  which  answered  best  to  all  well  said 
By  others,  and  which  most  requital  made. 

John  Cleveland. 

Let  the  learned  and  witty,  the  jovial  and  gay, 
The  generous  and  honest  compose  our  free  state. 

B.  Jonson,  Leges  Conviviales. 

I  may  chance  have  some  odd  quirks  and  rem- 
nants of  wit  broken  on  me,  because  I  have  rail'd 
so  long  against  marriage. 

Much  Ado  about  Nothing,  ii,  3. 

Raillery,  Raillery !  Madam,  we  have  no  Ani- 
mosity— We  hit  off  a  little  wit  now  and  then, 
but  no  Animosity. 

Congreve,  The  Way  of  the  World,  iii,  13. 

I  shall  see  thee  ere  I  die  look  pale  with  love. 

Much  Ado  about  Nothing,  i,  i. 


QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS  II5 

Here  you  may  see  Benedick  the  married  man.  "^^^  Guest. 

Much  Ado  about  Nothing,  i,  i. 

Oh,  he  has  Witchcraft  in  his  Eyes  and  Tongue; 
—  when  I  did  not  see  him  I  could  have  bribed  a 
Villain  to  his  Assassination. 

Congreve,  The  Way  of  the  World,  v,  8. 

My  Resolution  is  to  see  Foreign  Parts — I  have 
set  on  't — and  when  I  'm  set  on  't  I  must  do  't. 

Congreve,  The  Way  of  the  World,  v,  13. 

To  be  a  well  favoured  man  is  the  gift  of  for- 
tune, but  to  write  and  read  comes  by  nature. 

Much  Ado  about  Nothing,  iii,  3. 

But  that  modesty  forbids  that  I  should  sound 
the  trumpet  of  my  own  deserts,  I  could  say,  my 
choice  manners  have  been  such,  as  render  me 
lov'd  and  remarkable  to  the  princes  of  the  blood. 

Beaumont  and  Fletcher,  The  EldIr  Brother. 

I  confess  I  do  blaze  to-day,  I  am  too  bright. 

Congreve,  The  Way  of  the  World,  ii,  4. 

Petulant  *s  my  Friend,  and  a  very  honest  Fel- 
low, and  a  very  pretty  Fellow,  and  a  smattering — 
Faith  and  Troth, —  a  pretty  deal  of  an  odd  sort 

of  a  Small  Wit.  Congreve,  The  Way  of  the  World,  i,  6. 

A  Wit  should   be  no   more  sincere  than   a 

Woman  constant.         congreve,  the  way  of  the  World,  i,  6. 

What  art  thou  but  black  clothes  ? 

Marston,  Satires,  ii. 

Greets  with  three  cheers  exulting,     cowper,  task,  \. 

Whose  homeopathic  sagacity 
With  an  ocean  of  zeal  mixed  his  drop  of  capacity. 

Lowell,  Fable  for  Critics. 


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The  Guest.        He  has  common  sense  in  a  way  that 's  uncommon. 
Hates  humbug  and  cant,  loves  his  friends  hke  a 

woman.  Lowell,  Fable  for  Critics. 

You  're  not  always  sure  of  your  game  when  you 

Ve  treed  it.  LoweU,  Fable  for  critics. 

I  must  post  an  anonymous  letter  to  Britain. 
And  show  that  this  gall  is  the  merest  suggestion 
Of  spite  at  my  zeal  on  the  Copyright  question. 

Lowell,  Fable  for  Critics. 

Humour's  son! 
Made  up  of  wisdom  and  of  fun. 
Medley  of  all  that  's  dark  and  clear, 
Of  all  that  's  foolish,  all  that  's  dear. 

Praed,  Eve  of  Battle. 

Child  of  an  age  that  lectures,  not  creates. 

Lowell,  The  Cathedral. 

I  see  him  coming !  let  's  fall  into  admiration 
of  his    good  parts,   that  he    may  overhear  his 

own  praise.  Skackerley  Marmion,  The  Antiquary,  iii. 

Outstrips  his  compeers  in  each  liberal  science. 

Skackerley  Marmion,  The  Antiquary,  i. 

A  man  that  has  traveled  and  been  careful  of  his 

time.  Skackerley  Marmion,  The  Antiquary,  iii. 

It  was    the   prettiest   talking   thing,  and   the 
wittiest  withal,  the  neighbours  took  such  delight 

to  near  it.  skackerley  Marmion,  A  Fine  Companion,  ii. 

I  tell  you  my  disposition,  I  am  wholly  ad- 
dicted to  rarities,  things  that  are  new  take  me. 

Skackerley  Marmion,  A  Fine  Companion,  L 


QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS  HJ 

You  're  welcome,      a  clergyman. 

Most  learned  reverend  sir.  henry  viii,  a,  2. 

Wait  till  you  hear  me  from  the  pulpit,  there 
you  cannot  answer  me  !  bisAop  aibert  Haven. 

Upon  the  platform,  'twixt  eleven  and  twelve. 

Hamlbt,  i,  2. 

This  good  man, 
This  just  and  learned  priest.  henry  viii,  n,  2. 

You  need  but  plead  your  honourable  privilege. 

All  's  Well,  iv,  5. 

His  office  sacred,  his  credentials  clear. 

Cowper,  Task,  ii. 

O  most  gentle  pulpiter !  what  tedious  homily  of 
love  have  you  wearied  your  parishioners  withal! 

As  You  Like  It,  iii,  2. 

Who  is  he  that  can  twice  a  week  be  inspired, 
or  has  eloquence  always  on  tap  ? 

Lowell,  BiGLOW  Papers,  ii,  3. 

Let  me  be  privileged  by  my  place  and  message 
To  be  a  speaker  free.  troilus  and  Cressida,  iv,  4. 

He  serves  a  raw  clergyman  up  with  the  toast ! 

O.  W.  Holmes,  For  After  Dinner. 

Let  me  be  blessed  for  the  peace  I  make ! 

II  Henry  VI,  ii,  i. 

Truth  from  his  lips  prevailed  with  double  sway. 
And  fools  who  came  to  scoff  remained  to  pray. 

Goldsmith,  Deserted  Village. 

He  that  negociates  between  God  and  man 

As  God's  Ambassador.  Cowper,  the  task,  u. 


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A  Clergyman.    ^  j^an  he  was  to  all  the  country  dear. 

Goldsmith,  Deserted  Village. 

When  at  his  humble  prayer  you  deign'd  to  eat, 
Saint  as  you  are,  a  civil  sinner's  meat.       crabbe. 

I  have  a  good  eye,  uncle;  I  can  see  a  church 
by  daylight.  much  ado,  u,  i. 

His    preaching    much    but    more    his    practice 

wrought 
A  Hving  sermon  of  the  truths  he  taught. 

Dryden,  Good  Parson. 

He  was  of  that  stubborn  crew 
Of  errant  saints  whom  all  men  grant 
To  be  the  true  Church  Militant.  Butur,  hudibras,  i,  i. 

The  shepherd  seeks  the  sheep  and  not  the 

sheep   the    shepherd.  *       two  Gentlemen  of  Verona,  i,  i. 

Look,  the  unfolding  star  calls  up  the  shepherd. 

Measure  for  Measure,  iv,  2. 

Being  a  divine,  a  ghostly  confessor, 

A  sin-absolver  and  my  friend  profess'd. 

Romeo  and  Juliet,  iii,  3. 

The  gentleman  is  learned  and  a  most  rare  speaker. 

Henry  VIII,  i,  2. 

I  am  persuaded  devotion  is  the  greatest  plea- 
sure of  his  soul,  and  there  is  none  hears  him  read 
without  the  utmost  reverence. 

Steele,  The  Guardian,  no.  65. 

More  like  a  soldier  than  a  man  o'  the  church. 

II  Henry  VI,  i,  i. 


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His  words  and  works  and  fashion  too 

All  of  a  piece,  and  all  are  clear  and  straight.     • 

Herbert,  Constancy. 

Bound  by  my  charity  and  my  blest  order. 

Measure  for  Measure,  ii,  3. 

They  have  snared  the  shepherd  of  the  flock. 

II  Henry  VI,  ii,  2. 

To  have  a  thin  stipend,  and  an  everlasting  parish. 
Lord,  what  a  torment 't  is  ! 

Beaumont  and  Fletcher,  The  Spanish  Curate,  i. 


A  Clergyman. 


Let  the  trumpets  blow 
That  this  great  soldier  may  his  welcome  know. 

Troilus  and  Cressida,  iv,  5. 

The  Army 's  at  the  door  and  in  disguise. 

Buckingham,  The  Rehearsal. 

From  heart  of  very  heart,  great  Hector,  welcome  ! 

Troilus  and  Cressida,  iv,  5. 

Hail  to  the  chief  who  in  triumph  advances. 

Scott,  Lady  of  the  Lake,  ii. 

You  have  yourself  been  a  great  fighter  though 

now  a  man  of  peace.  Merry  wives  of  Windsor,  ii,  3. 


A  Soldier. 


Whose  high  deeds, 
Whose  hot  incursions  and  great  name  in  arms 
Holds  from  all  soldiers  chief  majority. 

I  Henry  IV,  iii,  2. 

This  goin'  ware  glory  waits  ye  haint  one  agree- 
able feetur.  Lowell,  Biglow  Papers,  ii. 


Of  a  valiant  mind  in  wars,  of  great  devise  in 

time  01  peril.  sir  Antonle  of  Guevara,  Familiar  Letters. 


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A  Soldier.         jo  me  the  cries  of  fighting  fields  are  charms, 
Keen  be  my  sabre  and  of  proof  my  arms  ! 

Dryden,  Aurengzebe. 

To  that  dauntless  temper  of  his  mind, 
He  hath  a  wisdom  that  doth  guide  his  valor 

To  act  in  safety.  Macbeth,  iii,  I. 

Famous  throughout  the  world  for  warlike  praise. 

Spenser,  Faerie  Queene. 

Health,  peace,  and  many  a  bloodless  year 

To  fight  his  battles  o'er.  o.  w.  Holmes,  1865. 

Go  seek  thy  peace  in  war, 
Who  falls  for  love  of  God,  shall  rise  a  star. 

B.  Jonsoft,  Underwoods. 

He  was  a  soldier  good. 
But,  by  great  Mars,  the  captain  of  us  all. 
Never  like  thee.  troilus  and  Cressida,  iv,  5. 

I  have  no  words, 

My  voice  is  in  my  sword.  Macbeth,  v,  8. 

What  my  tongue  speaks  my  right  drawn  sword 

may  prove.     ,  Richard  II,  i,  i. 

To  see  great  Hector  in  his  weeds  of  peace. 

Troilus  and  Cressida,  iii,  3. 

Gads  —  Daggers  —  Belts  —  Blades  and  Scab- 
bards, this  is  the  very  Gentleman ! 

Congreve,  The  Old  Batchelor,  li,  i. 

Most  illustrious 
Six  or  seven  times  honored  captain-general. 

Troilus  and  Cressida,  iii,  3. 


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The  winds  sits  in  the  shoulder  of  your  sail  a  saiior. 

And  you  are  stay'd  for.  hamlet,  i,  3. 

A  broadside  for  our  Admiral, 

Load  every  crystal  gun.  o.  w.  Holmes,  1865. 

In  peace,  my  boys,  or  war, 
Here  's  to  the  brave  upon  the  wave,  the  gallant 

English  Tar.  EUza  Cook,  the  English  Tar. 

There  's  one  whose  fearless  courage  yet  has  never 

failed  in  fight, 
Who  guards  with  zeal  our  country's  weal,  our 

freedom  and  our  right,  ehzu  Cook,  the  English  tar. 

How  slow  his  soul  sail'd  on, 
How  swift  his  ship.     .  cymbeline,  i,  3. 

How  does  that  honorable,  complete  and  free- 
hearted gentleman  ?  Timon  of  Athens,  iii,  I. 

Welcome,  brave  captain  and  victorious  lord. 

I  Henry  VI,  iii,  4. 

Charming  the  narrow  seas 
To  give  you  gentle  pass.  henry  v,  ii,  prol. 

We  must  bring  you  to  our  captain. 

Two  Gentlemen  of  Verona,  v,  3. 

Hath  pass'd  in  safety  through  the  narrow  seas. 

Ill  Henry  VI,  iv,  8. 

He  would  not  flatter  Neptune  for  his  trident. 

CORIOLANUS,  iii,  I. 

His  heart  and  hand  both  open  and  both  free. 

Troilus  and  Cressida,  iv,  5. 


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A  Sailor.  On  this  coast 

Suppose  him  now  at  anchor.         pericles,  v  (Gower). 

Then  is  all  safe,  the  anchor  's  in  the  port. 

Titus  Andronicus,  iv,  4. 

When  the  sea  was  calm  all  boats  alike 
Showed  mastership  in  floating.        coriolanus,  iv,  x. 

I  desire  no  more  delight 
Than  to  be  under  sail  and  gone  to-night. 

Merchant  of  Venice,  ii,  6. 


An  Author.       That  hath  a  mint  of  phrases  in  his  brain. 

Love's  Labour's  Lost,  i,  i. 

You  two  are  book-men.        love's  labour's  lost,  iv,  2. 

Pray,  let  me  hear  you  recite  some  of  your  Ver- 
ses, which  to  a  Wit  is  a  Favour,  I  'm  sure. 

Wycherley,  Love  in  a  Wood,  ii. 

One  that  excels  the  quirks  of  blazoning  pens. 

Othello,  ii,  i. 

A  poet  soaring  in  the  high  region  of  his  fancies 
with  his  garland  and  singing  robes  about  him. 

Milton,  Reason  of  Church  Government,  Int.  ii. 

Rhyme  will  undo  you,  and  hinder  your 
growth  and  reputation  in  court  more  than  any- 
thing beside.  B.  Jonson,  love's  Welcome  at  Bolsover. 


But  wrote  he  like  a  gentleman  ? 
In  rhyme,  fine  tinkling  rhyme  and  flowing  verse. 
With  now  and  then  some  sense !    and  he  was 

paid  for  't  !  B.  Jo?ison,  the  fortunate  Isles. 


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That  's  of  no  consequence,  all  that  can  be  said       ^^  Author, 
is  that  two  people  happen'd  to  hit  on  the  same 
thought — and  Shakespeare  made  use  of  it  first, 

that  'S  all.  Sheridan,  The  Critic,  iu,  i. 

I  am  sure  if  he  be  a  good  poet  he  has  discov- 
ered a  good  tavern  in  his  time. 

B,  Jonson,  News  from  the  New  World. 

Don't  Stir,  gentlemen ;  't  is  hixt  an  author. 

Le  Sage,  Gil  Blas,  iii,  2. 

Resigned  to  live,  prepared  to  die. 

With  not  one  sin  but  poetry.  Pope,  To  — . 

You  know  it  *s 
A  terrible  thing  to  be  pestered  with  poets. 

Lowell,  Fable  for  Critics. 

I  'm  told  you  write  in  public  prints ;  ef  true 
It 's  nateral  you  should  know  a  thing  or  two ! 

Lowell,  BiGLOw  Papers,  ii,  6. 

His  nature  's  a  glass  of  champagne  with  the  foam 

on  't. 
As  tender  as  Fletcher,  as  witty  as  Beaumont. 

Lowell,  Fable  for  Critics. 

For  of  all  compositions  he  thought  that  the  sonnet 
Best  repaid  all  the  toil  you  expended  upon  it. 

Lowell,  Fable  for  Critics. 

'T  is  impossible  !    The  Players  gone  to  dinner  ! 
Igad,  if  they  are,  I  '11  make  'em  know  what  it  is         ^ 
to  injure  a  Person  that  does  them  the  honour  to 

write  for  them  !  Buckingham,  The  Rehearsal. 

But  these  master-poets  they  will  have  their  own 
absurd  courses;  they  will  be  informed  of  nothing! 

B.  Jonson,  Bartholomew  Fair,  Induction. 


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QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS 


An  Author. 


I  begin  shrewdly  to  suspect  .  .  .  the  young 
man  of  a  terrible  taint,  poetry  ! 

B.  Jonson,  Bartholomew  Fair,  iii. 

When  a  man  tells  me  such  a  one  is  a  person 
of  parts;  "Is  he  so?"  say  I,  what  do  I  do  but 
bring  him  presently  to  see  this  Play  ;  if  he  likes 
it  I  know  what  to  think  of  him !  If  not,  your 
humble  Servant,  Sir;  I  '11  no  more  of  him  ! 

Buckingham,  The  Rehearsal. 

I  love  a  ballad  but  even  too  well ;  if  it  be  dole- 
ful matter,  merrily  set  down,  or  a  very  pleasant 
thing  indeed,  and  sung  lamentably. 

Winter's  Tale,  iv,  4. 

No  poet's  verses  yet  did  ever  move, 
Whose  readers  did  not  think  he  was  in  love. 

B.  Jonson,  An  Elegy. 

Plague  on  't  now.  Sneer,  I  shall  take  it  ill. — 
I  believe  you  want  to  take  away  my  character  as 
an  author. 

Then  I  am  sure  you  ought  to  be  very  much 

obliged  to  me  !  Sheridan,  The  Critic,  i. 

Are  you  so  preposterous  in  your  opinion,  to 
think  that  wit  and  elegancy  in  writing  are  only 
confined  to  stagers  and  book-worms  ? 

Shackerley  Marmion,  The  Antiquary,  iii. 

'T  is  a  Poet,  we  call  them  Bards  in  our  coun- 
try, sings  ballads  and  rhymes. 

Dekker,  Satiro-Mastix. 


An  Actor  or 
Singer. 


Matrons  flung  gloves. 
Ladies  and  maids  their  scarfs  and  handkerchiefs, 
Upon  him.  coriolanus,  ii,  i. 


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Speak  a  huffing  part;  I  warrant  you  the  gentle-       ''^"sfn  *er  °' 
men  will  accept  of  it ! 

Beaumont  and  Fletcher^  Prol.  to  Knight  of  the  Burning  Pestle. 

A  merrier  man, 
Within  the  limit  of  becoming  mirth, 
I  never  spent  an  hour's  talk  withal. 

Love's  Labour's  Lost,  ii,  i. 

He  will  fetch  you  up  a  couraging  part  so  in 
the  garret,  that  we  are  all  as  fear'd  I  warrant  you, 
that  we  quake  again. 

Beaumont  and  Fletcher,  Prol.  to  Knight  of  the  Burning  Pestle. 

His  voice  was  propertied 

As  all  the  tuned  spheres.     Antonv  and  Cleopatra,  V,  2. 

And  witch  sweet  ladies  with  my  words  and  looks. 

Ill  Henry  VI,  iii,  2. 

When  thou  dost  act  men  think  it  not  a  play, 
But  all  they  see  is  real.  Randolph. 

An  excellent  song,  and  a  sweet  songster,  and 
would  have  done  rarely  in  a  cage,  with  a  dish  of 
water  and  a  hempseed. 

B.  Jonson,  Gipsies  Metamorphosed. 

What  a  voice  was  here  now  ! 

Beaumont  and  Fletcher,  Beggar's  Bush,  Ii. 

Not  a  better  pipe  at  the  play-house,  .  .  .  then 
he  is  as  cheerful  and  has  such  a  choice  collection 

of  songs  !  Foote,  The  Cozeners,  i. 

Puff.     Now  then  for  soft  music. 
Sneer.     Pray  what  's  that  for  ? 
Puff.     It  shows  that  Tilburina  is  coming :  noth- 
ing introduces  you  a   heroine  like  soft  music. 

Here  she  comes.  Sheridan,  the  critic,  ii,  2. 


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°"*offife"^^^'^  Why  may  not  an  Atlas  of  State,  such  as  my- 
self, that  bears  up  the  weight  of  a  common- 
wealth, now  and  then  for  recreation's  sake,  be 
glad  to  ease  his  shoulders  ? 

Shackerley  Marmion,  The  Antiquary,  ii. 

Whose  high  respect  and  rich  validity 

Did  lack  a  parallel.  all  's  well,  v,  3. 

And  bears  his  blushing  honors  thick  upon  him. 

Henry  VIII,  iii,  2. 

Statesman  yet  friend  to  truth  !  of  soul  sincere, 
In  action  faithful  and  in  honor  clear. 

Pope,  Moral  Essays,  v. 

Thou  art  not  for  the  fashion  of  these  times. 
Where  none  will  sweat  but  for  promotion. 

As  You  Like  It,  ii,  3. 

Meantime  forget  this  new-fall'n  dignity 
And  fall  into  our  rustic  revelry. 

As  You  Like  It,  v,  4. 

A  ginooine  statesman  should  be  on  his  guard, 
Ef  he  must  hev  beliefs,  nut  to  b'lieve  'em  tu  hard. 

Lowell,  BiGLOw  Papers,  ii,  5. 

If  we  say  'n  our  pletform  thet  all  men  are  bro- 
thers, 

We  don't  mean  thet  some  folks  ain't  more  so  'n 
some  others. 

An'  it  's  wal  understood  thet  we  make  a  se- 
lection, 

An'    thet   brotherhood    kin'    o'   subsides    arter 

'lection.  Lowell,  Biglow  Papers,  ii,  5. 

Blunt  not  his  love. 
Nor  lose  the  good  advantage  of  his  grace 
By  seeming  cold.  ii  henry  iv,  iv,  4. 


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With  promise  of  high  pay  and  great  rewards.         °"  omS!^"*^ 

Ill  Henry  VI,  ii,  i. 

Let  them  behold  the  melancholy  of  a  Magis- 
trate, and  taste  the  fury  of  a  citizen  in  office. 

Marston,  Chapman  and  Jonson,  Eastward  Ho,  iv,  2. 

This  is  a  gentle  provost :  seldom  when 
The  steeled  gaoler  is  the  friend  of  men. 

Measure  for  Measure,  iv,  2. 

Integrity 
And  skill  in  thee  now  grew  authority. 

B.  Jonson,  Underwoods. 

Let  Others  hail  the  rising  sun, 

I  bow  to  that  whose  course  is  run.  Garrkk. 

The  malevolence  of  fortune  nothing 

Takes  from  his  high  respect.  Macbeth,  m,  6. 

Upon  this  land  a  thousand,  thousand  blessings,     ou^  country. 

Henry  VIII,  v,  5. 

My  heart  is  thirsty  for  that  noble  pledge. 

Julius  C^sar,  iv,  3, 

And  to  his  country  "  plenty,  peace  and  wealth." 

W.  King,  Art  of  Cookery. 

I  know  no  South,  no  North,  no  East,  no  West, 
to  which  I  owe  any  allegiance. 

Henry  Clay,  Speech,  1848. 

Our  Federal  Union ;  it  must  be  preserved. 

Andrew  Jackson,  On  Jefferson's  Birthday  Celebration,  1830. 

Live  the  Commonwealth  also 

And  the  men  that  guide  it !  gaudeamus  igitur. 

So  long  as  men  can  breathe  or  eyes  can  see 
So  long  lives  this. 

Shaksj^ere,  Sonnets,  xviii. 


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QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS 


Our  Country.     When  pubHc  blessings  public  peace  attend, 
When  glory  is  our  motive,  not  our  end. 

Young,  Love  of  Fame, 

That  man  's  the  best  cosmopolite 
Who  loves  his  native  country  best. 

Tennyson,  Hands  all  Around. 

One  flag,  one  land,  one  heart,  one  hand, 

One  nation,  evermore  !  o.  w.  Holmes,  1862. 

Fill  the  cup  and  let  it  come,  I  '11  pledge  you  a 
mile  to  the  bottom.  11  henry  iv,  v,  3. 

Let  them  not  live  to  taste  this  land's  increase 
That  would  with  treason  wound  this  fair  land's 

peace  !  Richard  III,  v,  s- 

Congress.         For  government,  though  high  and  low  and  lower, 
Put  into  parts  doth  keep  in  one  consent. 

Henry  V,  i,  2. 

Arming  myself  with  patience 
To  stay  the  providence  of  some  high  powers 

That  govern  us  below.  Julius  C^sar,  V,  1. 


The  President. 


Your  high  self. 
The  gracious  mark  o'  the  land,    winter's  tale,  iv,  4. 


The  high  east 
Stands,  as  the  Capitol,  directly  here  ! 

Julius  C^sar,  ii,  i. 

Your  Lordship  may  hold  it  for  most  certain 
that  the  office  of  President  is  not  a  little  honor- 
able, but  jointly  therewith  very  tedious  and  bur- 
densome. Sir  Antonie  of  Guevara,  Familiar  Epistles. 


QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS  I29 

You  were  crOWn'd  before    The  President. 

And  that  high  royalty  was  ne'er  pluck'd  off. 

King  John,  iv,  2. 

With  loyal  blazon  ever  more  be  blest ! 

Merry  Wives  of  Windsor,  v,  5. 

The  dignity  and  height  of  honor,    richard  hi,  Iv,  4. 

Look  in  our  eyes  !  Your  welcome  waits  you 
there, 

North,  South,  East,  West,  from  all  and  every- 
where !  O.  IV.  Holmes,  To  The  President. 

Where  inward  dignity  joins  outward  state. 

Young,  Love  of  Fame. 

The  special  head  of  all  the  land,      i  henrv  iv,  iv,  4. 


Both  great  in  courage,  conduct  and  in  fame.  Army  and 


Yet  neither  envious  of  the  other's  praise; 
Their  duty,  faith  and  interest  too  the  same, 
Like  mighty  partners,  equally  they  raise. 

Dryden,  Annus  Mirabilis. 

Each  able  to  sustain  a  nation's  fate. 

Dryden,  Annus  Mirabilis. 

Your  fortunes  are  alike  in  all. 
That  in  your  country's  service  drew  your  swords. 

Titus  Andronicus,  i,  i. 

Such  strong  renown  as  time  shall  ne'er  decry. 

Pericles,  iii,  2. 

Yet  I  love  glory :  —  glory  's  a  great  thing. 

Byron,  Don  Juan,  viii. 

It  is  not  so  easy  to  be  a  brave  man  as  the  un- 
thinking part  of  mankind  imagine.  To  dare  is 
not  all  there  is  in  it.  steeu,  spectator,  no.  350. 

9 


Navy. 


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Army  and  Por  as  pravcrs  do  remove  sins  even  so  doth 

armor  defend  from  enemies. 

Sir  Anionie  of  Guevara,  Familiar  Epistles. 

In  avoiding  Scylla  we  fall  into  Charybdis  ! 

Trans,  of  Phillippe  Gualtier,  Alexandreis,  v. 

All  other  greatness  ...  is  only  counterfeit, 
it  will  not  endure  the  test  of  danger ;  the  great- 
ness of  arms  is  only  real.  Other  greatness 
burdens  a  Nation  with  its  weight ;  this  supports 
it  with  its  strength. 

Dryden,  Account  prefixed  to  Annus  Mirabilis. 

Give  them  great  meals  of  beef,  and  iron  and 
steel,  they  will  eat  like  wolves  and  fight  like  dev- 
ils. Henry  V,  iii,  7. 

Defenders  of  our  soil ! 
Who  from  destruction  save  us ;  who  from  spoil 
Protect  the  sons  of  peace.  crabbe. 

A  moderate  pension  shakes  full  many  a  sage. 

Byron,  Don  Juan,  viii. 

He  jests  at  scars  that  never  felt  a  wound. 

Romeo  and  Juliet,  ii,  2. 

I  think 
You  have  heard  of  my  poor  services. 

Winter's  Tale,  iv,  4. 

Renowned  for  their  deeds  as  far  from  home, 
For  Christian  service  and  true  chivalry, 
As  is  the  Sepulchre  .  .  . 

Of  the  World's  ransom.  Richard  II,  ii,  I. 

I  have  done  the  state  some  service  and  they 

know  't.  Othello,  v,  2. 


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IQl 


Painful  labour  both  by  sea  and  land. 

Taming  of  the  Shrew,  v,  2. 

You  have  done  well  by  water. 

And  you  by  land.  Antony  and  Cleopatra,  ii,  6. 

By  sea  and  land  I  '11  fight.  Antony  and  Cleopatra,  iv,  2. 

If  you  are  at  sea 
Or  stomach-qualm'd  at  land,  a  dram  of  this 
Will  drive  away  distemper.  cymbeline,  m,  4. 

To  win  renown 
Even  in  the  jaws  of  danger  and  of  death. 

King  John,  v,  2. 

Arms  which  to  man  ne'er-dying  Fame  afford. 

Congreve. 

Our  age  has  much  improv'd  the  Warrior's  Art 
For  fighting  now  is  thought  the  weakest  Part. 

Congreve. 

A  scar  nobly  got,  or  a  noble  scar,  is  a  good 
livery  of  honour.  all  's  well,  iv,  5. 


Army  and 
Navy. 


O  happy  art !  and  wise  epitome 

Of  bearing  arms !     Most  civil  soldiery  ! 

B.  Jonson,  Underwoods. 

There  *s  not  a.  soldier  of  us  all  that,  in  the 
thanksgiving  before  meat,  doth  relish  the  petition 
well  that  prays  for  peace,     measure  for  Measure,  i,  2. 


The  Army. 


Seeing  gentle  words  will  not  prevail 

Assail  them  with  the  army.  u  henry  vi,  iv,  2. 


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The  Army.        Q  it  's  Tommy  this,  an'  Tommy  that,  an'  "  Tom- 
my, go  away," 
But  it 's  ''  Thank  you,  Mister  Atkins,"  when  the 
band  begins  to  play.  Rudyard  Kipung,  tommy. 

For  it   's  Tommy  this,  an'  Tommy  that,    an' 

"  Tommy,  wait  outside," 
But  it  's   "  Special  train  for  Atkins"   when  the 

trooper  'S  on  the  tide.  Rudyard  KipUng,  tommy. 

Then  it  's  Tommy  this,  an'  Tommy  that,  an' 

*'  Tommy,  'ow  's  yer  soul  ?  " 
But  it  's  '*  Thin   red  line   of  'eroes  "  when   the 

drums  begin  to  roll.  Rudyard  KiJ>lmg,  Tommy. 

For  the  army  is  a  school  in  which  the  miser  be- 
comes generous  and  the  generous  prodigal. 

Don  Quixote,  xxxix. 

Ay  me !  what  perils  do  environ 

The  man  that  meddles  with  cold  iron ! 

Butler,  HuDiBRAS,  i,  3. 

In  their  ragged  regimentals 
Stood  the  old  Continentals 

Yielding  not.        G.  H.  MacMaster,  Carmen  Bellicosum. 

They  are  soldiers, 
Witty,  courteous,  liberal,  full  of  spirit. 

Ill  Henry  VI,  i,  2. 

He  that  is  truly  dedicate  to  war, 

Hath  no  self-love.  ii  henry  vi,  v,  2. 

To  be  tender-minded 
Does  not  become  a  sword.  lear,  v,  3. 


QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS  I33 

No  company  can  be  more  amiable  than  that  of       "^^^  Army, 
men  of  sense  who  are  soldiers. 

Steele,  Spectator,  no.  162. 

With  spirit  of  honour  edged 
More  sharper  than  your  swords.         henry  v,  ui,  5. 

Armour  of  safe  defence  the  soldier  hath  .  .  . 
As  well  may  serve  to  shield  this  land  from  woe. 

Peele,  A  Pageant. 


O  behold,  The  Navy. 

The  riches  of  the  ship  is  come  on  shore  ! 

Othello,  ii,  i. 

The  winds  and  the  waves  are  always  on  the 
side  of  the  ablest  navigators. 

Gibbon,  Decline  and  Fall  of  the  Roman  Empire. 

The  best  pilots  have  need  of  mariners  besides 
sails,  anchor  and  other  tackles. 

B.  Jonson,  Discoveries. 
I  '11  fight  at  sea.  Antony  and  Cleopatra,  iii,  7. 

With  us  at  sea  it  hath  been  still  observed ;  and 

we  are  strong  in  custom.  Pericles,  iii,  I. 

The  ship  is  in  her  trim,  the  merry  wind 
Blows  fair  from  land.  comedy  of  errors,  iv,  i 

Lords  of  the  wide  world  and  wild  watery  seas. 

Comedy  of  Errors,  ii,  i. 

Or,  as  it  were  the  pageants  of  the  sea. 

Merchant  of  Venice,  i,  i. 

Commands 

The  empire  of  the  sea.  Antony  and  Cleopatra,  i,  2. 


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The  Navy.        Make  the  sea  serve  them,  which  they  ear  and 
wound 

With  keels.  Antony  and  Cleopatra,  i,  4. 

Ships, 
Fraught  with  the  ministers  and  instruments 

Of  cruel  war.  Troilus  and  Cressida,  prologue. 

And  o'er  green  Neptune  's  back 

With  ships  made  cities.        Antony  and  Cleopatra,  iv,  14. 

Our  ships  you  happily  may  think 

Are  like  the  Trojan  horse  was  stuff'd  within 

With  bloody  veins.  Pericles  i,  4. 

Let  Neptune  hear  me  bid  a  loud  farewell 

To  these  great  fellows,  Antony  and  Cleopatra,  ii,  7. 

It  is  a  theme  as  fluent  as  the  sea.       henry  v,  m,  ^, 

As  firm  as  laitn.  Merry  wives  of  Windsor,  iv,  4. 

The  strict  discipline 
Of  the  church  will  teach  you  better  thoughts. 

Beaumont  and  Fletcher,  The  Spanish  Curate,  v. 

By  the  heavens'  assistance  and  your  strength.  • 

III  Henry  VI,  v,  4. 

Ten  thousand  Angels  on  her  slumbers  wait 
With  glorious  Visions  of  her  future  state. 

Dryden,  Hind  and  Panther. 

Grace  is  grace,  despite  of  all  controversy. 

Measure  for  Measure,  i,  2. 

Figure  of  truth,  of  faith,  of  loyalty.     Pericles,  v,  3. 


QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS  I35 


One  in  hope  and  doctrine,  The  church. 

One  in  charity.  5.  BaHng  couid. 

Still  in  thy  right  hand  carry  gentle  peace, 

To  silence  envious  tongues.  henry  viii,  in,  2. 

Elect  from  every  nation 

Yet  one  o'er  all  the  earth.  s.  j.  stone. 

For  my  authority  bears  of  a  credent  bulk. 

Measure  for  Measure,  iv,  4. 

It  is  in  my  authority  to  command 

The  keys.  winter's  tale,  i,  2. 

All  the  reverend  fathers  of  the  land 

And  doctors  learned.  henry  viii,  u,  4. 

The  Universal  Church  is  just  as  much  a  reality 
as  any  particular  nation  is. 

F.  D.  Maurice,  Biography,  I,  i66. 

That  to  believing  souls 
Gives  light  in  darkness,  comfort  in  despair. 

II  Henry  VI,  il,  i. 

There  and  there  only  is  the  power  to  save. 

Cowj^er,  Progress  of  Error. 

Fortified  by  power  divine, 

The  Church  can  never  fail.  ckaries  wesiey. 

We  must  bend  unto  all  means 
That  may  give  furtherance  to  the  holy  cause. 

B.  Jonson,  The  Alchemist,  iii 

Unshaken  as  eternal  hills, 

Immovable  she  stands, 
A  mountain  that  shall  fill  the  earth, 

A  house  not  made  by  hands.      a.  Cleveland  Coxe. 


136  QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS 


The  Church.  ^hat  all  parts  of  the  Land  may  equally  par- 

take the  plentiful  and  diligent  preaching  of  the 

Jr  aitn.  MUton,  An  apology. 

There  are  no  tricks  in  plain  and  simple  faith. 

Julius  C^sar,  iv,  2. 

The  strength  of  Empire  is  in  Religion. 

B.  Jonson,  Discoveries. 


The  Press. 


^  T  is  my  vocation,  Hal ;  't  is  no  sin  for  a  man 
to  labour  in  his  vocation.  i  henry  iv,  i,  2. 

Join  we  together  for  the  public  good 

In  what  we  can.  n  henry  vi,  i,  i. 

Shall  quips  and  sentences  and  these  paper 
bullets  of  the  brain  awe  a  man  from  the  career 

of  his  humour  ?  much  Ado  about  nothing,  ii,  3. 

What  a  pulpit  the  editor  mounts  daily,  some- 
times with  a  congregation  of  fifty  thousand  with- 
in reach  of  his  voice,  and  never  so  much  as  a  nod- 
der,  even,  among  them !        Loweii,  biglow  papers,  i,  6. 

Behold  the  whole  huge  earth  sent  to  me  heb- 
domadally  in  a  brown-paper  wrapper. 

Lowell,  Biglow  Papers,  i,  6. 

But  to  have  the  sweet  babe  of  my  brain  served 

in  pi  !  Lowell,  Fable  for  Critics,  Preface. 

I  am  a  printer,  and  a  printer  of  news ;  and  I 
do  hearken  after  them,  wherever  they  be  at  any 
rates ;  I  '11  give  anything  for  a  good  copy  now, 
be  it  true  or  false,  so  it  be  news. 

B.  Jonson,  News  from  the  New  World. 


QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS  I37 


A  gentleman  .  .  .  that  loves  to  hear  himself 
talk,  and  will  speak  more  in  a  minute  than  he 
will  stand  to  in  a  month.  romeo  and  juuet,  h,  4. 

I  am  by  my  place  to  know  how  to  please  the 
palates  of  the  guests ;  so  you  are  to  know  the 

palates  of  the  times.  B.  Jonson,  Neptune's  Triumph. 

The  newspapers!  —  Sir,  they  are  the  most  vil- 
lainous —  licentious  —  abominable  • —  infernal  — 
Not  that  I  ever  read  them — No  —  I  make  it  a 
rule  never  to  look  into  a  newspaper. 

Sheridan,  The  Critic,  L 

Come,  don't  be  faint-hearted,  there  has  many 
a  printer  been  raised  to  the  pillory  from  as  slen- 
der beginnings.  Foote,  the  Devil  upon  two  Sticks,  ii. 

Praise  me  not  too  much. 
Nor  blame  me,  for  thou  speakest  to  the  Greeks 

Who  know  me  !  Bryant,  Homer's  Iliad,  x. 

Four  hostile  newspapers  are  more  to  be  feared 

than  a  thousand  bayonets.  Attributed  to  Napoleon  i. 

Master!  master!  news,  old  news,  and  such 
news  as  you  never  heard  of. 

The  Taming  of  the  Shrew,  lii,  2. 

Though  an  angel  should  write,  still  't  is  devils 

must  print.  Thomas  Moore,  The  Fudges  in  England,  iiL 

The  unhappy  man  who  once  has  trail'd  a  pen, 
Lives  not  to  please  himself  but  other  men. 

Dryden,  Prologue  to  Lee's  CvEsar  Borgia. 


The  Press. 


The  Press. 


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News  is  your  food,  and  you  enough  provide, 
Both  for  yourselves  and  all  the  world  beside. 

Dryden,  Prologue  to  Lee's  Caesar  Borgia. 

How  shall  I  speak  thee  or  thy  power  address 
Thou  god  of  our  Idolatry,  the  Press ! 

Cowper,  Progress  of  Error. 

Mightiest  of  the  mighty  means 

On  which  the  arm  of  Progress  leans. 

Sir  John  Bowring. 

Some  tell,  some  hear,  some  judge  of  news,  some 

make  it.  Dryden,  Spanish  Friar,  iv. 

This  folio  of  four  pages,  happy  work 

Which  not  e'en  critics  criticise,  cowper,  the  task,  iv. 

Caused  by  a  dearth  of  scandal  should  the  vapours 
Distress  our  fair  ones — let  them  read  the  papers. 

Garrick,  Prologue  to  Sheridan's  School  for  Scandal. 

Lively  or  sad,  life's  meanest,  mightiest  things, 
The  fate  of  fighting  cocks  or  fighting  kings. 

Charles  Sprague,  Curiosity. 

Ask  how  to  live  ?  Write,  write,  write  anything ; 
The  world  's  a  fine  believing  world,  write  news ! 

Beaumont  and  Fletcher,  Wit  without  Money,  ii. 

I  would  derive  the  name  editor  not  so  much 
from  edo,  to  publish,  as  from  edo,  to  eat,  that  be- 
ing the  peculiar  profession  to  which  he  esteems 
himself  called.  Loweii,  biglow  papers,  i,  6. 

Let  us  laugh  and  hurra !  put  our  heart  in  our 

voice  — 
With    our    Long   Primer,    Small    Pica,   Minion, 

Bourgeois  !  Praed,  King  of  Clubs. 

Here  's  all  the  success  it  deserves ! 

Sheridan,  School  for  Scandal,  iii,  3. 


QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS  I39 


And  seeing  the  place  getting  rapidly  cleared,  Reporters. 

I,  too,  snatched  my  notes  and  forthwith  disap- 
peared. Lowell,  Fable  for  Critics. 

A  chiel  's  arriang  ye  takin'  notes 

And,  faith,  he  '11  prent  it !  Burns,  On  captain  Grose. 

I  have  ta'en  a  due  and  wary  note  upon  't. 

Measure  for  Measure,  iv,  i. 

Report  me  and  my  cause  aright 
To  the  unsatisfied.  hamlet,  v,  2. 

At  every  interview  their  route  the  same. 

Cowper,  Conversation. 
I  can  set  down  a  story.  Skakspere,  Sonnets,  Ixxxviii. 


Art  is  long  and  time  is  fleeting.  The  Arts. 

Longfellow,  from  Hippocrates. 

Arts  that  respect  the  mind  were  ever  reputed 
nobler  than  those  that  serve  the  body. 

B.  Jonson,  Discoveries. 

It  is  my  temper  and  I  like  it  the  better  to 

affect  all  harmony.        sir  Thomas  Browne,  Religio  Medici. 

All  passes.     Art  alone 

Enduring  stays  to  us.         Austin  Dohson. 

Seraphs  share  with  thee 
Knowledge;  but  Art,  O  Man,  is  thine  alone. 

Schiller,  The  Artist. 
Art  is  power.  Long/ellow,  Hyperion,  iii,  5. 

The  conscious  utterance  of  thought  by  speech 
or  action,  to  any  end  is  art.  Emerson,  art. 


140  QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS 

The  Arts.  j^  our  fine  arts  not  imitation  but  creation  is 

the  aim.  Emerson,  A^t. 

Illusion  on  a  ground  of  truth  is  the  secret  of 
the  fine  Arts.  jouben. 

Architecture  is  frozen  music. 

Schelling,  Philosophy  of  Art. 

Architecture  is  the  work  of  nations. 

Ruskin,  Sculpture. 

A  time  is  to  come  when  those  stones  will  be 
held  sacred  because  our  hands  have  touched  them. 

Ruskin,  Seven  Lamps  of  Architecture,  Memory. 

Picture  is  the  invention  of  heaven,  the  most 
ancient  and  the  most  akin  to  nature. 

B.  Jonson,  Discoveries. 

Art  curbs  Nature,  Nature  guideth  Art. 

Marston,  The  Scourge  of  Villainy,  ix, 

A  true  artist  should  put  a  generous  deceit  on 
the  spectators  and  effect  the  noblest  designs  by 

easy  methods.  Burke,  On  the  sublime  and  Beautiful,  ii. 

As  the  arts  advance  towards  their  perfection 
the  science  of  criticism  advances  with  equal  pace. 

Burke,  On  Taste. 

Art  can  never  give  the  rules  that  make  an  art. 

Burke,  On  the  Sublime  and  Beautiful,  i,  19. 

So  long  as  brain  and  heart 
Have  faculty  by  nature  to  subsist 
Till  each  to  razed  oblivion  yield  his  part 
Of  thee,  thy  record  never  can  be  missed. 

Shakspere,  Sonnets,  cxxii. 

If  Knowledge  be  the  mark,  to  know  thee  shall 

suffice.  Shakspere,  Passionate  Pilgrim,  v. 


QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS  I4I 

Full  of  great  rooms  and  small  the  palace  stood  The  Arts. 

All  various,  each  a  perfect  whole. 

Tennyson,  Palace  of  Art. 

The  labor  is  not  small, 
Yet  winds  the  pathway  free  to  all. 

Tennyson,  Stanzas. 

Not  Babylon 
Nor  great  Alcairo  such  magnificence 
Equal' d  in  all  their  glories.      MiUon,  paradise  Lost,  i. 

Arts  that  polish  life.  Muton,  paradise  lost,  m. 

All  the  arts 
Wait  at  my  table,  every  man  of  quaHty 
Take  sanctuary  here !    I  will  be  patron 
To  twenty  liberal  sciences.    Randolph,  jealous  lovers. 

The  business  of  Art  is  not  to  represent  things 
as  nature  makes  them,  but  as  she  ought  to  make 

them.  A  ttributed  to  Raphael. 

Art  is  a  natural  product  of  humanity  as  vege- 
tation is  a  product  of  the  soil. 

Charles  L'Eveque,  Spiritualism  in  Art. 

All  these  are  mine, 
And  let  the  world  have  peace  or  wars 

'T  is  one  to  me.  Tennyson,  Palace  of  Art. 

Strength  levels  grounds,  Art  makes  a  garden 

tnere.  Herbert,  Church  Militant. 

We  will  our  youth  lead  on  to  higher  fields.  Educationc 

II  Henry  IV,  iv,  4. 


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Education.  Whilcst  that  the  childe  is  young  let  him  b*e  in- 

structed in  vertue  and  lytterature. 

Lyly,  Anatomy  of  Wit. 

I  know  no  disease  of  the  soul  but  ignorance. 

B.  Jonson,  Discoveries. 

And  all  in  sight  did  rise  a  birchen  tree 

Which  Learning  near  her  little  dome  did  stowe. 

Shenstone,  The  Schoolmistress. 

Delightful  task !    To  rear  the  tender  thought, 
To  teach  the  young  idea  how  to  shoot. 

Thomson,  The  Seasons,  Spring. 

Tutor'd  in  the  rudiments 
Of  many  desperate  studies.  as  you  like  it,  v,  4. 

For  we  should  remember  that  nothing  is  more 
natural  for  people  whose  education  has  been  neg- 
lected than  to  spell  evolution  with  an  initial  ''r." 

Lowell^  Democracy. 

The  riches  of  scholarship  and  the  benignities 
of  literature  defy  fortune  and  outlive  calamity. 

Lowell,  Books  and  Libraries. 

A  comfortable  quarantine  where  they  could 
wait  till  the  gates  of  life  were  opened  to  them, 
safe  from  any  contagion  of  learning,  except  such 
as  might  be  developed  from  previous  infection ! 
I  am  speaking  of  a  great  while  ago. 

Lowell,  Harvard  Anniversary. 

Make  Knowledge  circle  with  the  winds 
But  let  her  herald  Reverence  fly 

ijeiOre  ner.  Tennyson,  Love  thou  thy  Land. 

Earthly  godfathers  of  heaven's  lights 
That  give  a  name  to  every  fixed  star. 

Love's  Labour's  Lost,  i,  i. 


QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS  I43 


What  we  want  is  not  learning  but  knowledge;        Education, 
that  is  the  power  to  make  learning  answer  its 
true  end  as  a  quickener  of  intelligence  and  a 
widener  of  our  intellectual  sympathies. 

Lowell,  Books  and  Libraries. 

Institute 
A  course  of  learning  and  ingenious  studies. 

Taming  of  the  Shrew,  i,  x. 

Base  men  by  his  endowments  are  made  great. 

Richard  II,  ii,  3. 

O  what  learning  is  !  romeo  and  Juuet,  iii,  3. 

Education  we  are  often  told  is  a  drawing  out 

of  the  faculties.  Lowell,  harvard  anniversary. 

Thou  hast  most  traitorously  corrupted  the 
youth  of  the  realm  in  erecting  a  grammar  school. 

II  Henry  VI,  iv,  7. 

Nor  are  they  such 
That  these  great  towers,  trophies  and  schools 

should  fall 
For  private  faults  in  them.         timon  of  Athens,  v,  4. 

v/Study  is  like  the  heaven's  glorious  sun. 

Love's  Labour's  Lost,  i,  i. 

In  proportion  as  there  are  more  thoroughly 
cultivated  persons  in  a  community  will  the  finer 
uses  of  prosperity  be  taught  and  the  vulgar  uses 
of  it  become  disreputable. 

Lowell,  Harvard  Anniversary. 

It  is  not  the  passing  through  these  learnings 
that  hurts  us,  but  the  dwelling  and  sticking  about 

tiiem.  B.  Jonson,  Discoveries. 


144 


QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS 


Education.  J  have  evcr  observed  it  to  have  been  the  office 

of  a  wise  patriot  ...  to  take  care  of  the  com- 
monwealth of  learning.  For  schools  —  they  are 
the  Seminaries  of  State.  js.  jonson,  discoveries. 

Therefore  it  were  to  be  wish'd,  that  there 
reign'd  not  among  the  People  of  this  Land  such 
a  general  itching  after  Book-learning,  and  I  be- 
lieve so  many  Free  Schools  do  rather  Hurt  than 

(jrOOd  !  Howell,  Familiar  Letters,  iii,  8. 

Send  thee  manly  patience  with  thy  learning. 

Beaumont  and  Fletcher,  The  Elder  Brother,  ii,  3. 


Literature. 


So  full  of  shapes  is  fancy 
That  it  alone  is  high  fantastical,   twelfth  night,  i,  i. 

Letters  are,  as  it  were,  the  bank  of  words  and 
restore  themselves  to  an  author  as  the  pawns  of 

language.  B.  Jonson,  discoveries. 

A  health  to  poets  !  all  their  days 
May  they  have  bread  as  well  as  praise. 

T.  Parnell 

To  see  the  laurel-wreath,  on  high  suspended, 
That  is  to  crown  our  name  when  life  is  ended. 

Keats,  Sleep  and  Poetry. 

Their  verse  had  a  quieting 
Effect  after  dinner,  and  seemed  to  suggest  a 
Retreat  to  the  shrine  of  a  tranquil  siesta. 

Lowell,  Fable  for  Critics. 

"Stay,  I  *11  read  you  a  scene,"  but  he  hardly 

began, 
Ere  Apollo  shrieked  ''Help!"  and  the  authors  all 

ran.  Lowell,  Fable  for  Critics. 


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The  wise  Scandinavians  probably  called  their       Literature, 
bards  by  the  queer-looking  title  of  Scald,  in  a 
delicate  way,  as  it  were,  just  to  hint  to  the  world 
the  hot  water  they  always  got  into. 

Lowell,  Fable  for  Critics,  Preface. 

I  never  knew  a  man  of  letters  ashamed  of  his 

profession.  Thackeray, 

The  love  of  learning,  the  sequestered  nooks, 
And  all  the  sweet  serenity  of  books. 

Longfellow,  Morituri  Salutamus. 

Which  art  our  writers  used  to  obscure  their  art. 

B.  Jonson,  The  Alchemist,  ii. 

Books  are  not  absolutely  dead  things,  but  do 
contain  a  potency  of  life  in  them  to  be  as  active 
as  that  soul  was  whose  progeny  they  are. 

Milton,  Areopagitica. 

Ready  writing  makes  not  good  writing;  but 
good  writing  brings  on  ready  writing:  yet,  when 
we  think  we  have  got  the  faculty,  it  is  even  then 

good  to  resist  it.  B.  Jonson,  discoveries. 

Poetry  with  all  its  obscurity  has  a  more  gen- 
eral as  well  as  a  more  powerful  dominion  over 
the  passions  than  .  .  .  painting. 

Burke,  On  the  Sublime  and  Beautiful,  ii. 

Pray  ye  buy  books,  buy  books, 

You  have  a  learned  head,  stuff  it  with  libraries, 

And  understand  'em  when  ye  have  done. 

Beaumont  and  Fletcher,  The  Spanish  Curate,  iv,  5. 

We  cultivate  literature  on  a  little  oatmeal. 

Sydney  Smith,  Memoir,  I,  23. 

O  blessed  Letters !  that  combine  in  one 
All  ages  past,  and  make  one  live  with  all. 

10  Daniel,  MusoPHiLUS. 


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Literature.       Literature  is  an  avenue  to  glory. 

n Israeli,  Literary  Character. 

But  now  nothing  is  good  that  is  natural. 

B.  Jonson,  Discoveries. 

Bright   books  !     the  perspectives    to  our   weak 

sights, 
The  clear  projections  of  discerning  lights, 
Burning  and  shining  thoughts,  man's  posthume 

day, 
The  track  of  fled  souls  and  their  milkie  way. 

Vaughan,  Books. 

A  little  unbak'ed  poetry, 

Such  as  the  dabblers  of  our  time  contrive. 

Beaumont  arid  Fletcher,  The  Elder  Brother,  ii. 

No  scandal  about  Queen  Elizabeth,  I  hope  ? 

Sheridan,  The  Critic,  iv,  i. 

Madam,  a  circulating  library  in  a  town  is  an 
evergreen  tree  of  diabolical  knowledge.  It  blos- 
soms through  the  year  !  Sheridan,  the  rivals,  i,  2. 

But  in  this  age  a  sect  of  writers  are. 
That  only  for  particular  likings  care, 
And  will  taste  nothing  that  is  popular. 

B.  Jonson,  Prologue  to  The  Silent  Woman. 

To  show  how  much  thou  art  degenerate. 

I  Henry  IV,  iii,  2. 

Little  infants  of  the  time, 
Who  write  new  songs  and  trust  in   tune   and 

rhyme.  Dryden,  Epilogue  to  The  Indian  Emperor. 

Can  it  be 
That  so  degenerate  a  strain  as  this 
Should  once  set  footing  in  your  generous  bosoms? 

Troilus  and  Cressida,  ii,  2. 


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The  multitude  commend  writers,  as  they  do        Literature, 
fencers  or  wrestlers;  who  if  they  come  in  robust- 
iously,  and  put  for  it  with  a  great  deal  of  violence 
are  received  for  the  braver  fellows. 

B.  Jonson,  Discoveries. 

We  bring  no  imperfections,  but  our  own  ; 
Such  faults  as  made  are  by  the  makers  shown. 

Dryden,  Prologue  to  the  University  of  Oxford. 

But  after  all,  a  poet  must  confess, 

His  art  's,  like  physic,  but  a  happy  guess. 

Dryden,  Epilogue  to  Aurengzebe. 

Poetry  in  the  primogeniture,  had  many  pec- 
cant humours,  and  is  made  to  have  more  now 
through    the    levity  and  inconstancy  of  men's 

judgments.  B.  Jonson,  DiscovEmzs. 

What  stuff  will  please  you  next,  the  Lord  can  tell. 

Dryden,  Prologue  to  The  Kind  Keeper. 

Each  haughty  poet  will  infer  with  ease. 
How  much  his  wit  must  underwrite  to  please. 

Dryden,  Epilogue  to  Dryden  and  Lee's  CEdipus. 

The  monument  of  vanished  minds. 

Davenant,  Gondibert,  ii,  5. 

Who  would  excel,  when  few  can  make  a  test 
Betwixt  indifferent  writing  and  the  best  ? 

Dryden,  Epilogue  to  Aurengzebe. 

You  shall  see  them  on  a  beautiful  quarto  page, 
where  a  neat  rivulet  of  text  shall  meander  through 
a  meadow  of  margin,    sheridan,  school  for  scandal,  i,  i. 

That  place  that  does  contain  my  books,  my  best 

companions,  is  to  me 
A  glorious  court  where  hourly  I  converse 
With  the  old  sages  and  philosophers. 

Beaumont  and  Fletcher,  The  Elder  Brother,  i,  2. 


148  QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS 


The  Critics.       ]s^q  author  ever  spared  a  brother, 

Wits  are  game-cocks  to  one  another.  Gay,  fables. 

Who  shall  dispute  what  the  reviewers  say  ? 

Churchill,  Apology. 

Not  all  on  books  their  criticism  waste, 
The  genius  of  a  dish  some  justly  taste 
And  eat  their  way  to  fame.        Young,  love  of  fame. 

Almighty  critics  !  whom  our  Indians  here 
Worship,  just  as  they  do  the  devil,  for  fear. 

Dryden,  Prologue  to  The  Indian  Emperor. 

2d  Prol.  Hold  !  would  you  admit 

Forjudges  all  you  see  within  the  pit? 

1st  Prol.     Whom  would  he  then  except,  or  on 
what  score  ? 

2d  Prol.     All  who,  like  him,  have  writ  ill  plays 

before.  Dryden,  Prologue  to  The  Rival  Ladies. 

A  perfect  judge  will  read  each  work  of  wit 
With  the  same  spirit  that  its  author  writ. 

Pope,  Essay  on  Criticism. 

And  since  they  will  not  admit  of  my  Playes 
they  shall  know  what  a  Satyrist  I  am. 

Buckingham,  The  Rehearsal. 

True;  my  power  with  the  managers  is  pretty 

notorious.  Sherldajt,  The  Critic,  i. 

Now  the  plays  are  begun  I  shall  have  no  peace. 

Sheridan,  The  Critic,  i. 

Yet  there  are  some  (too  many)  that  think 
nothing  good  that  is  so  courteous  as  to  come 
within  their  reach. 

Marston,  Preface  to  The  Scourge  of  Villainy. 


gUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS  149 


A  wise  scepticism  is  the  first  attribute  of  a       The  critics. 

good  critic.  Lowell,  Shakspere  Once  More, 

Do  not  put  me  to  't, 
For  I  am  nothing  if  not  critical.  oxHELLo.ii.i. 

Critics  .  .  .  whose  opinion  and  patronage  all 
writers  solicit,  and  whose  recommendation  no 
manager  dares  refuse.  Sheridan,  the  critic,  i. 

Yet,  scattered  here  and  there,  I  some  behold. 
Who  can  discern  the  tinsel  from  the  gold. 

Dryden,  Epilogue  to  Aurengzebe. 

The  critic's  lot  is  passing  hard  — 
Between  ourselves,  I  think  reviewers, 
When  call'd  to  truss  a  crowing  bard 
Should  not  be  sparing  of  the  skewers. 

Locker,  Advice  to  a  Poet. 

Critics  to  Plays  for  the  same  End  resort, 
That  Surgeons  wait  on  Trials  in  a  court 
For  Innocence  condemn'd  they  Ve  no  Respect, 
Provided  they  've  a  Body  to  dissect ! 

Congreve,  Epilogue  to  The  Mourning  Bride. 

You  're  certain  to  be  pleased  where  errors  are ! 

Cibher,  Prologue  to  Love  Makes  a  Man. 

An  excellent  and  true  judge  upon  cause  and 
reason;  not  because  he  thought  so  but  because 
he  knew  so  out  of  use  and  experience. 

B.  Jonson,  Discoveries. 

To  judge  of  poets  is  only  the  faculty  of  poets; 
and  not  of  all  poets,  but  the  best. 

B.  Jonson,  Discoveries. 


l^O  QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS 


The  Critics.  He  is  onc  of  you ; 

A  brother  judgment,  and,  as  I  hear  say, 
A  cursed  critic  as  e'er  damned  a  play. 

Dryden,  Prologue  to  Secret  Love. 

Good  savage  gentlemen,,  your  own  kind  spare. 

Dryden,  Epilogue  to  Secret  Love. 

These  cruel  critics  put  me  into  passion. 

For  in  their  lowering  looks  I  read  damnation. 

Epilogue  to  Dryden's  Troilus  and  Cressida. 


The  Stage.  What  nCWS  On  the  RialtO  ?      merchant  of  Venice,  i,  3. 

Children  of  later  growth,  we  love  the  Play^ 
We  love  its  heroes,  be  they  grave  or  gay, 
From  squeaking,  peppery,  devil-defying  Punch 
To  roaring  Richard  with  his  camel-hunch. 

O.  W.  Holmes,  1873. 

"  The  world  's  a  stage,"— as  Shakspeare  said  one 

day; 
The  stage  a  world  —  was  what  he  meant  to  say. 

O.  W.  Holmes,  A  Prologue. 

Old  men  shall  have  good  old  plays  to  delight 

'em : 
And  you,  fair  ladies  and  gallants,  that  slight  'em. 
We  '11  treat  with  good  new  plays,  if  our  new  wits 

can  write  'em. 

Dryden,  Prologue  for  the  opening  of  the  New  Theatre  in  1682. 

Thespis,  the  first  professor  of  our  art. 
At  country  wakes,  sung  ballads  in  a  cart. 

Dryden,  Prologue  to  the  University  of  Oxford. 

Is  n't  this  flat  conjuring. 
To  make  our  ghosts  walk  ere  we  be  dead  ? 

Randolph,  Muses'  Looking-Glass. 


QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS  IJl 


Boldly  I  dare  say  The  stage. 

There  has  been  more  by  us  in  some  one  play 
Laughed  into  wit  and  virtue,  than  have  been 
By  twenty  tedious  lectures  drawn  from  sin 

And  foppish  humour.       Randolph,  Muses'  Looking-Glass. 

Whilst    scenes,    machines,    and    empty    operas 

reign, 
And  for  the  pencil  you  the  pen  disdain ; 
While  troops  of  famished  Frenchmen  hither  drive, 
And  laugh  at  those  upon  whose  alms  they  live ; 
Old  English  authors  vanish,  and  give  place 
To  these  new  conquerors  of  the  Norman  race. 

Dryden,  Prologue  for  the  Opening  of  the  New  House  in  1674. 

You  now  have  habits,  dances,  scenes,  and  rhymes, 
High  language  often,  ay,  and  sense  sometimes. 

Dryden,  Prologue  to  The  Rival  Ladies. 

When  they  do  agree  on  the  stage  their  una- 
nimity is  wonderful  !  Sheridan,  T^m  Critic,  ii,  a. 

Welcome  shall  they  be ; 
And  all  the  honours  that  can  fly  from  us 
Shall  on  them  settle,  all  's  well  that  ends  well,  iii,  i. 

They  are  the  abstract  and  brief  chronicles  of 
the  time ;  after  your  death  you  were  better  have 
a  bad  epitaph  than  their  ill  report  while  you  live. 

Hamlet,  ii,  2. 

God  has  given  you  one  face,  and  you  make 
yourselves  another.  hamlet,  iii,  i. 

The  theatre,  in  proper  hands,  might  certainly 
be  made  the  school  of  morality ;  but  now,  I  am 
sorry  to  say,  people  seem  to  go  there  principally 
for  their  entertainment.  Sheridan,  the  critic,  l 


1_52  QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS 

The  Stage.        For  we  that  live  to  please  must  please  to  live. 

Johnson,  Opening  of  Drury  Lane  Theatre. 

We  now  prescribe,  like  Doctors  in  Despair, 
The  Diet  your  weak  appetites  can  bear. 
Since  hearty  Beef  and  Mutton  will  not  do. 
Here  's  Julep  dance.  Ptisan  of  song  and  show. 

Dryden,  Prologue  to  Albion  and  Albanius. 

The  players  are  my  pictures  and  their  scenes 
my  territories.  steeu,  the  tatler,  no.  182. 

There  is  no  human  invention  so  aptly  calcu- 
lated for  the  formation  of  a  free-born  people  as 
that  of  a  theatre.  steeu,  the  tatler,  no.  167. 

Dramatic  writers  were  like  Watchmen  meant 
To  knock  down  Vice — few  answer  their  intent. 

Garrick,  Prologue  to  Foote's  Cozeners. 

True  wit  has  seen  its  best  days  long  ago ; 

It  ne'er  looked  up  since  we  were  dipped  in  show, 

When  sense  in  dogrel  rhymes  and  clouds  was 

lost, 
And  dulness  flourished  at  the  actors'  cost ; 
Nor  stopped  it  here ;  when  tragedy  was  done, 
Satire  and  humour  the  same  fate  have  run, 
And  comedy  is  sunk  to  trick  and  pun. 

Dryden,  Prologue  to  The  Kind  Keeper. 

The  Law.         Lawycrs  are  needful  to  keep  us  out  of  law. 

Proverb. 

Old  father  antic  the  law.  i  henry  iv,  \,  2. 

These  fellows  of  infinite  tongue,  that  can 
rhyme  themselves  into  ladies'  favours,  they  do 
always  reason  themselves  out  again,    henry  v,  v,  2. 


QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS  133 


I  am  one  of  those  gentle  ones  that  will  use  the         The  Law. 
devil  himself  with  courtesy.  twelfth  night,  iv,  2. 

With  an  aspect  of  iron,  that  when  I  come  to 
woo  ladies  I  fright  them.  henry  v,  v,  2. 

How  low  so  ever  the  matter,  I  hope  in  God  for 
high  words. 

A  high  hope  for  a  low  heaven ;  God  grant  us 
patience  !  love's  labour's  lost,  i,  i. 

Use  every  man  after  his  desert,  and  who  should 
'scape  whipping?  Hamlet,u,  2. 

These  nice  sharp  quillets  of  the  law. 

I  Henry  VI,  ii,  4. 

Plays  such  fantastic  tricks  before  high  heaven 
As  make  the  angels  weep,  measure  for  measure,  a,  2. 

Would  to  God  thou  and  I  knew  where  a  com- 
modity of  good  names  were  to  be  bought. 

I  Henry  IV,  i,  2. 

The  Stranger's  help,  the  poor  man's  aid. 
Thy  just  defences  made  the  oppressor  afraid. 

B.  JoHson,  Underwoods. 

Litigious  terms,  fat  contentions  and  flowing  fees. 

Milton,  Education. 

Plead  much,  read  more,  dine  late  or  not  at  all. 

Pope,  Satires,  iv,  37. 

More  authority,  dear  boy,  name  more ! 

Love's  Labour's  Lost,  i,  2. 

Had  you  heard  him  first 
Draw  it  to  certain  heads,  then  aggravate ! 

B.  Jonson,  Volbone,  iv. 


1^4  QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS 


The  Law.         Such  virtuc  is  there  in  a  robe  and  gown  ! 

Prologue  to  Dryden's  Troilus  and  Cressida. 

Nor  pleads  he  worse  who  with  a  decent  sprig 
Of  bays  adorns  his  legal  waste  of  wig. 

Sheridan,  Prologue  to  The  Rivals. 

We  surgeons  of  the  law  do  desperate  cures,  Sir. 

Beaumont  and  Fletcher,  The  Spanish  Curate,  iii. 

Bar.  Substantial  fearless  souls  that  will  swear 
suddenly,  that  will  swear  anything. 

Hen.     They  shall  swear  truth  too. 

Bar.  That  's  no  great  matter ;  for  variety  they 
may  swear  truth,  else  't  is  not  much  look'd 

after.  Beaumont  and  Fletcher,  The  Spanish  Curate,  iii. 

I  am  a  mortal  man  again,  a  Lawyer, 
My  martial  part  I  have  put  off. 

Beaumont  and  Fletctier,  The  Little  French  Lawyer,  v. 

Dazzle  mine  eyes  ?  or  do  I  see 
Two  glorious  Suns  of  Chancery  ? 

Praed,  Eve  of  Battle. 

The  Law,  our  kingdom's  golden  chaine. 

Dekker,  Satiro-Mastix. 

The  majesty  and  power  of  law  and  justice. 

II  Henry  IV,  v,  2. 

Oh  't  is  a  blessed  thing  to  have  rich  clients. 

Beaumont  and  Fletcher,  The  Spanish  Curate,  iii. 

Men  of  your  large  professions  that  could  speak 
To  every  cause  and  things — mere  contraries, 
Till  they  were  hoarse  again,  yet  all  be  law. 

B.  Jonson,  Volpone,  L 

Nay,  if  he  take  you  in  hand,  sir,  with  an  argu- 
ment, 
He  '11  bray  you  in  a  mortar! 

B.  Jonson,  The  Alchemist,  ii. 


QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS 


'55 


'Fore  God,  my  intelligence 
Costs  me  more  money  than  my  share  oft  comes 

to.  B.  Jonson,  The  Alchemist,  i. 


The  Law. 


And  sovereign  law  that  state's  collected  will, 
O'er  thrones  and  globes  elate  sits  empress. 

Sir  William  Jones,  A  State. 

The  law :  It  has  honored  us  ;  may  we  honor  it. 

Daniel  Webster,  May  lo,  1847. 

Thet  slow  critter  'stablished  law ; 
Onsettle  thet  and  all  the  world  goes  whiz, 
A  screw  's  gut  loose  in  everythin'  there  is. 

/  Lowell,  BiGLOW  Papers,  ii,  2. 

Do  you,  with  all  those  blushing  powers  of  face, 
And  wonted  bashful  hesitating  grace, 
Rise  in  the  court  and  flourish  on  the  case. 

Sheridan,  Prologue  to  The  Rivals. 


Though  they  do  appear. 
As  huge  as  high  Olympus.  julius  c^sar,  iv,  3. 


The  Judiciary. 


Some  are  born  great,  some  achieve  greatness, 
and  some  have  greatness  thrust  upon  'em. 

Twelfth  Night,  ii,  5. 

Ye  see,  I  first  read  a'  the  pleadings ;  and  then, 
after  letting  them  wamble  in  my  wame  wi'  the 
toddy  two  or  three  days,  I  gie  my  ain  interlocu- 
tor. Lord  Polkonimet. 


In  giving  liberal,  in  his  speech  reposed,  m 
business  affable,  in  hearing  patient,  prompt  in 
expedition,  gentle  in  chastisement,  and  benign  in 

pardonmg.  sir  Antonle  of  Guevara,  Familiar  Epistles, 


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QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS 


The  Judiciary,  J^^^^^  [^  j^jg  judgments,  true  of  his  word,  con- 
stant in  that  he  takes  in  hand,  secret  in  that  he 
understandeth,  large  and  bountiful  in  giving. 

Sir  Antonie  of  Guevara,  Familiar  Epistles 

You  weigh  this  well: 
Therefore  still  bear  the  balance  and  the  sword. 

II  Henry  IV,  v,  2. 


Medicine. 


The  labour  we  delight  in  physics  pain. 

Macbeth,  ii,  3. 

Life  and  health  which  are  both  inestimable  we 
have  of  the  physican.  b.  jonson,  discoveries. 


It  is  in  the  power  of  every  hand  to  destroy  us, 
and  we  are  beholding  unto  every  one  we  meet, 

he  doth  not  kill  us.       sir  Thomas  Browne,  Religio  Medici. 

Wherein 't  is  as  dangerous  to  be  sentenced  by 
a  physician  as  a  Judge. 

Sir  Thamas  Browne,  Religio  Medici. 

I  feel  not  in  me  those  sordid  and  unchristian 
desires  of  my  profession  ;  I  do  not  secretly  im- 
plore and  wish  for  plagues,  rejoice  at  famines. 
...  I  desire  everything  in  its  proper  season, 
that  neither  the  men  nor  the  times  be  out  of 

temper.  sir  Thomas  Browne,  Religio  Medici. 


Physicians  mend  or  end  us. 
Secundum  artem  ;  but  although  we  sneer 
In  health  — >  when  ill,  we  call  them  to  attend  us, 
Without  the  least  propensity  to  jeer. 


Byron,  Don  Juan,  x. 


QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS  1^7 


Health  to  the  art  whose  glory  is  to  give  Medicine. 

The  crowning  boon  that  makes  it  life  to  live. 

O.  W.  Holmes,  A  Modest  Request. 

As  Adrian  VI.  said,  he  is  very  necessary  to 
a  populous  Country  for  were  it  not  for  the  Phy- 
sician, Men  would  live  so  long  and  grow  so  thick, 
that  one  could  not  live  for  the  other;  and  he 
makes  the  P^arth  cover  all  his  Faults.  But  what 
Pope  Adrian  ( said  )  of  the  Physician  was  spoken 
I  conceive  in  merriment. 

Howell,  P'AMiLiAR  Letters,  iii,  8. 

Or  catches  some  doctor  quite  tender  and  young 
And  basely  insists  on  a  bit  of  his  tongue. 

O.  W.  Holmes. 

One  that  is  able  to  undo  the  Company  of 
Barber- Surgeons  and  College  of  Physicians,  by 
making  all  diseases  fly  the  country. 

Randolph,  Aristippos. 

Then  the  Doctors  !     O  to  hear 

The  Doctors !     O  to  watch  the  thirsty  plants 

Imbibing  !  Tennyson,  The  Princess,  ii. 

Medicine  is  to  be  praised  when  it  is  in  the 
hands  of  a  physician  that  is  learned,  grave,  wise, 
stayed  and  of  experience. 

Sir  A  ntonie  of  Guevara,  Familiar  Epistles. 

We  will  be  brave,  Puffe,  now  we  have  the  med'- 

Cme.  B.  Jonson,  The  Alchemist,  ii. 

O  health !  health !  the  blessing  of  the  rich ! 
the  riches  of  the  poor !  who  can  buy  thee  at  too 
dear  a  rate,  since  there  is  no  enjoying  the  world 
without  thee.  Be  then  not  so  sparing  of  your 
purses,  honorable  gentlemen.       b.  jonson,  volpone,  ii. 


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QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS 


Medicine. 


I  think  you  '11  force  me  to  become  your  patient. 

Shackerley  Marmion,  The  Antiquary,  iii. 

The  patient  must  minister  to  himself. 

Throw  physic  to  the  dogs.  Macbeth,  V,  3. 

The  direful  art 
To  taint  with  deadly  drugs.  Pope,  odyssey,  i. 

I  take  not  on  me  here  as  a  physician. 

II  Henry  IV,  iv,  i. 

A  good  stout  plague  amongst  'em 

Or  half  a  dozen  new  fantastical  fevers  ? 

Beaumont  and  Fletcher,  The  Spanish  Curate,  ii. 

The  doctors  are  our  friends;  let  's  please  them 

well, 
For  though  they  kill  but  slow,  they  are  certain. 

Beaumont  and  Fletcher,  The  Spanish  Curate,  ii. 


Woman.      ^  \  ^^ve  half  a  dozen  healths 

To  drink  to  these  fair  ladies.  henry  viii,  i,  4. 


From  women's  eyes  this  doctrine  I  derive : 
They  sparkle  still  the  right  Promethean  fire ; 
They  are  the  books,  the  arts,  the  academes. 
That  show,  contain,  and  nourish  all  the  world. 

Love's  Labour's  Lost,  iv,  3. 

Ladies,  you,  whose  gentle  hearts  do  fear 
The  smallest  monstrous  mouse. 

Midsummer  Night's  Dream,  v,  i. 

I  '11  drink  to  her  as  long  as  there  is  a  passage 
in  my  throat  and  drink  in  Illyria. 

Twelfth  Night,  i,  3. 


QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS  1^9 


I  have  suffered  more  for  their  sakes — more  woman, 

than  the  villainous  inconstancy  of  man's  dispo- 
sition is  able  to  bear.  Merry  wives  of  Windsor,  iv,  5. 

I  shall  break  the  laws  of  Mahomet  this  very- 
evening,  and  toast  your  health  in  a  bumper. 

Cohnan  {the  Elder),  Man  and  Wife,  ii. 

Gentlewomen  (I  am  sworn  to  put  them  in  first) 
and  gentlemen  around  ...  I  drink  this  good 
draught  to  your  health  here. 

B.  Jonson,  Prologue  to  Every  Man  out  of  his  Humour. 

Rocks  whereon  greatest  men  have  oftest  wreck'd. 

Milton,  Paradise  Lost,  ii. 

A  creature  of  a  most  perfect  and  divine  tem- 
per; one  in  whom  the  humours  and  elements  are 
peaceably  met,  without  emulation  of  precedence. 

B.  Jonson,  Cynthia's  Revels,  ii,  i. 

A  creature  fond  and  changing,  fair  and  vain. 
The  creature  woman,  rises  now  to  reign. 

Thomas  Parnell,  Hesiod. 

Then  to  the  sparkling  glass  would  give  his  toast 
Whose  bloom  did  most  in  his  opinion  shine. 

W.  King. 

Fill  to  your  mistress'  lips, 

We  drink  this  health  to  you.  Pericles,  ii,  3- 

We  to  ourselves  prove  false, 
By  being  once  false  forever  to  be  true 
To  those  that  make  us  both  — fair  ladies,  you. 

Love's  Labour's  Lost,  v,  2. 

Deep-sworn  faith,  peace,  amity,  true  love 
Between  our  kingdoms.  king  John,  iii,  i. 


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Woman.  You  caii  make  fools  of  wits,  we  find  each  hour ; 

But  to  make  wits  of  fools  is  past  your  power. 

Dryden,  Prologue  to  Cleomenes. 

For  the  ladies,  't  is  Apollo's  will, 
They  should  have  power  to  save,  but  not  to  kill ; 
For  Love  and  he  long  since  have  thought  it  fit, 
Wit  live  by  beauty,  beauty  reign  by  wit. 

Dryden,  Epilogue  to  The  Indian  Emperor. 

Whoe'er  she  be. 

That  not  impossible  she, 

That  shall  command  my  heart  and  me. 

Crashaw,  To  HIS  Supposed  Mistress. 

Of  her  he  loves  and  never  can  forget. 

Cowper,  Charity. 

Drink  ye  to  her  that  each  loves  best ! 

Campbell,  Drink  ye  to  Her. 

The  one  thing  finished  in  this  hasty  world. 

Lowell,  The  Cathedral. 

Our  sex  you  know  was  after  yours  designed  ; 
The  last  perfection  of  the  Maker's  mind : 
Heaven  drew  out  all  the  Gold  for  us,  and  left 

your  Dross  behind.    Dryden,  Prologue  to  Amphitryon. 

Whose  name  refines  coarse  lines  and  makes  prose 

song.  John  Donne, 

Now,  I  consider,  they  are  great  helps  to  a  man. 

Shackerley  Marmton,  The  Antiquary,  iii. 

Nature  made 
Nothing  but  women  dangerous  and  fair ; 
Therefore  if  you  should  chance  to  see  'em 
Avoid  'em  straight,  I  charge  you ! 

Davenant  and  Dryden,  The  Tempest,  ii. 


QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS  l6l 

Women  are  like  tricks  by  sleight  of  hand,  Woman 

Which  to  admire,  we  should  not  understand. 

Congreve,  Love  for  Love,  iv. 

Prosperity  to  the  man  that  ventures  most  to 
please  her  i  abber,  love's  last  shift,  iv. 

Yet,  if  he  might  his  own  grand  jury  call, 
By  the  fair  sex  he  begs  to  stand  or  fall. 

Dryden^  Epilogue  to  All  for  Love. 

I  ought  to  have  my  own  way  in  everything, 
and  what  's  more  I  will,  too. 

Sheridan,  School  for  Scandal,  ii,  x. 

Fain.     To  give  her  her  Due  she  has  Wit. 
Mira,     She  has  Beauty  enough  to   make  any 

Man  think  so,  and  Complaisance  enough  not 

to  contradict  him  who  shall  tell  her  so. 

Congreve,  The  Way  of  the  World,  i,  3. 

Do  you  question  me  as  an  honest  man  should 
do,  for  my  simple  true  judgment ;  or  would  you 
have  me  speak  after  my  custom,  as  being  a  pro- 
fessed tyrant  to  their  sex  ? 

Much  Ado  about  Nothing,  i,  1. 

Oh  women,  women 
When  you  are  pleased  you  are  the  least  of  evils. 

Beaumont  and  Fletcher,  The  Little  French  Lawyer,  iii. 

O  the  vanity  of  these  Men  !  .  .  .  If  they  did 
not  commend  us,  we  were  not  handsome ! 

Congreve,  The  Way  of  the  World,  ii,  4. 

There  is  no  point  of  the  Compass  to  which 
they  cannot  turn,  and  by  which  they  are  not 
turned,  and  by  one  as  well  as  another ;  for  Mo- 
tion not  Method  is  their  Occupation. 

Congreve,  The  Way  of  the  World,  ii,  6. 


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Woman.  Q  womaii !     lovely  woman  !     Nature  made  thee 

To  temper  man  :    we  had  been  brutes  without 

you.  Otway,  Venice  Preserved,  i,  i„ 

O  woman  !     perfect  woman  !     what  distraction 
Was  meant  to  mankind  when  thou  wast  made  a 

devil  !  Beaumont  and  Fletcher^  Monsieur  Thomas,  iii,  i. 

v^Something  between  a  hindrance  and  a  help. 

Words-worthy  Michael. 

What  man  can  pretend  to  be  a  beHever  in  love, 
who  is  an  abjurer  of  wine  ?  T  is  the  test  by 
which  the  lover  knows  his  own  heart.  Fill  a 
dozen  bumpers  to  a  dozen  beauties,  and  she  that 
floats  atop  is  the  maid  that  has  bewitched  you. 

Sheridan,  School  for  Scandal,  iii,  3. 

Mrs.  Mai.     There  's  a  little  intricate  hussy  for 

you  ! 
Sir  Anth,     It  is  not  to  be  wondered  at,  ma'am, — 

all  this  is  the  natural  consequence  of  teaching 

girls  to  read.  Sheridan,  The  Rivals,  i,  2. 

I  would  send  her,  at  nine  years  old,  to  a  board- 
ing-school, in  order  to  learn  a  Httle  ingenuity 
and  artifice.  Then,  sir,  she  should  have  a  super- 
cilious knowledge  in  accounts  ; —  and  as  she  grew 
up,  I  would  have  her  instructed  in  geometry,  that 
she  might  know  something  of  the  contagious 
countries  ;^ — -but  above  all,  Sir  Anthony,  she 
should  be  mistress  of  orthodoxy,  that  she  might 
not  mis-spell  and  mis-pronounce  words  so  shame- 
fully as  girls  usually  do ;  and  likewise  that  she 
might  reprehend  the  true  meaning  of  what  she  is 

saying.  Sheridan,  The  Rivals,  \,  2, 


QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS  163 


Kings  make  their  poets  whom  themselves  think  fit,  Woman. 

But  't  is  your  suffrage  makes  authentic  wit. 

Dryden,  Prologue  to  the  University  of  Oxford. 

/To  love  her  was  a  liberal  education. 

Steele,  Tatler,  no.  49. 

I  fill  this  cup  to  one  made  up 

Of  loveliness  alone.  Pinkney,  a  Health. 

Women  will  love  her  that  she  is  a  woman 
More  worth  than  any  man ;  men  that  she  is 
The  rarest  of  all  women.  winter's  tale,  y,  i. 

Here  is  the  lady  that  I  sent  for.      Welcome, 

fair  one  !  Pericles,  v,  i. 

Here  comes  the  lady  !  O,  so  light  of  foot 
Will  ne'er  wear  out  the  everlasting  flint. 

Romeo  and  Juliet,  ii,  6. 

Best  of  comfort,  and  ever  welcome  to  us.  — 

Welcome  lady.  Antony  and  Cleopatra,  iii,  6, 

Bless  you  my  fortunate  lady  !  all  's  Well,  h,  4. 

Now  the  Lord  bless  that  sweet  face  of  thine ! 

II  Henry  IV,  ii,  4. 

Bless  you  fair  dame  !  I  am  not  to  you  known. 

Macbeth,  iv,  2. 

To  the  unknown  beloved,  this,  and  my  good 

WlSneS.  Twelfth  Night,  ii,  5. 

•-^She  is  pretty  to  walk  with. 
And  witty  to  talk  with. 
And  pleasant  too,  to  think  on. 

SitckUng,  Brennoralt,  ii. 


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Woman.  }jip      Womcn  ?     I  ncvcr  heard  of  them  before, 

what  are  women  like  ? 
Prosp.     Imagine  something  between  young  men 
and  angels ; 

Fatally  beauteous,  and  having  killing  eyes ; 
Their  voices  charm  beyond  the  Nightingales ; 
They  are  all  enchantment. 

Davenant  and  Dryden,  The  Tempest,  iii. 

Is  she  not  then  beholding  to  the  man 

That  brought  her  for  this  high  good  turn  so  far  ? 

Titus  Andronicus,  i,  i. 

Do  not  these  high  strains  of  divination  in  our 
sister  work  some  touches  of  remorse  ? 

Troilus  and  Cressida,  ii,  2. 

I  see  our  wars 
Will  turn  into  a  peaceful  comic  sport 
When  ladies  crave  to  be  encountered  with. 

I  Henry  VI,  ii,  2. 

I  am  ashamed  that  women  are  so  simple 

To  offer  war  where  they  should  kneel  for  peace. 

Taming  of  the  Shrew,  v,  2. 

A  Daniel  come  to  judgment,  yea  a  Daniel. 

The  Merchant  of  Venice,  iv,  i. 

A  never  knew  so  young  a  body  with  so  old  a  head. 

The  Merchant  of  Venice,  iv,  i. 

Ladies  !  (I  hope  there  's  none  behind  to  hear,) 

I  long  to  whisper  something  in  your  ear, 

A  secret,  which  does  much  my  mind  perplex. 

Dryden,  Prologue  to  Lee's  Princess  of  Cleves. 

A  qualm  of  conscience  brings  me  back  agen. 
To  make  amends  to  you  bespattered  men. 

Dryden,  Epilogue  to  Lee's  Princess  of  Cleves. 

This  it  is  to  have  a  name  in  great  men's  fel- 
lowship. Antony  and  Cleopatra,  ii,  7. 


QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS  165 


Think  of  you  !     To  think  of  a  Whirlwind,  tho*  Woman, 

't  were  in  a  Whirlwind,  were  a  case  of  more  steady 
Contemplation ;  a  very  Tranquillity  of  Mind  and 

Mansion.  Congreve,  The  Way  of  the  World,  ii,  6. 

What  has  a  woman  to  do  with  politics,  Mrs. 

Dangle  ?  Sheridan,  The  Critic,!,  x. 

Why  should  not  then  we  women  act  alone  ? 
Or  whence  are  men  so  necessary  grown  ? 

Dryden,  Epilogue  to  The  Maiden  Queeh. 

I  am  as  free  as  Nature  first  made  man, 
Ere  the  base  laws  of  servitude  began. 

Dry  den.  The  Conquest  of  Granada,  I,  i,  x. 

The  lady  doth  protest  too  much,  methinks. 

Hamlet,  iu,  a. 

How  shall  we  rank  thee  upon  glory's  page, 
Thou  more  than  soldier,  and  just  less  than  sage. 

Thomas  Moore. 

Who  knew  the  seasons,  when  to  take 
Occasion  by  the  hand,  and  make 
The  bounds  of  freedom  wider  yet. 

Tennyson,  To  the  Queen. 

Lady  Froth.     Between  you  and  I,  I  had  whim- 
sies and  vapours  but  I  gave  them  vent. 
Cyn.     How  pray.  Madam  ? 
Lady  Froth.     O  I  writ,  writ   abundantly; — do 

you  never  write  ?      Congreve,  the  double  dealer,  ii,  I. 

For  let  'em  be  clumsy,  or  let  *em  be  slim, 

Young  or  ancient,  I  care  not  a  feather; 
So  fill  a  pint  bumper  quite  up  to  the  brim, 

And  let  us  e'en  toast  them  together. 

Sheridan,  School  for  Scandal,  fii,  3. 


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QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS 


^°"^*°-  I  wonder  you  will  still  be  talking 

Signior  Benedick,  nobody  marks  you. 

Much  Ado  about  Nothing,  i,  i. 

Our  proper  virtue  is  to  range  ; 
Take  that  away,  you  take  our  lives ; 
We  are  no  women  then,  but  wives. 

B.  Jonson,  Underwoods. 

But,  O,  ye  lords  of  ladies  intellectual ! 

Inform  us  truly,  have  they  not  henpecked  you  all? 

Byron,  Don  Juan,  i. 

For  if  she  will,  she  will,  you  may  depend  on  't. 
And  if  she  won't,  she  won't ;  so  there  's  an  end 
on  't 

From  a  Pillar  in  the  Dane  John  Field,  Canterbury. 

Casting  with  unpurchased  hand 
The  vote  that  shakes  the  turrets  of  the  land. 

O.  W.  Holmes,  Poetry. 

Liberty  exists  in  proportion  to  wholesome  re- 

Stramt.  Daniel  Webster,  Speech,  May  lo,  1847. 

V  What  will  not  woman,  gentle  woman,  dare  ? 

Southey,  Madoc  in  Wales,  li,  2. 

With  all  thy  faults  I  love  thee  still. 

Cowj>er,  The  Task,  ii. 

Sir,  a  woman  preaching  is  like  a  dog's  walk- 
ing on  his  hind  legs.  It  is  not  done  well ;  but 
you  are  surprised  to  find  it  done  at  all. 

Dr.  Johnson,  in  Boswell's  Life,  II,  ix. 

And  for  the  fighting  part,  we  may  in  time 
Grow  up  to  swagger  in  heroic  rhyme ; 
For,  though  we  cannot  boast  of  equal  force. 
Yet  at  some  weapons  men  have  still  the  worse. 

Dryden,  Epilogue  Vo  The  Maiden  Queen. 


QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS  167 

For  he  who  much  has  suffer'd  much  will  know.  Woman. 

Pope^  Odyssev,  XV. 

Let  independence  be  our  boast. 
Ever  mindful  what  it  cost. 

Joseph  Hopkinson,  Hail,  Columbia. 

They  rose,  but  at  their  height  could  seldom  stay. 

Dryden,  Epilogue  to  Second  Part  of  The  Conquest  of  Granada. 

Then  make  no  words' on  't,  gallants,  't  is  e'en 

true. 
We  are  condemned  to  look  and  strut  like  you. 

Dryden,  Prologue  to  The  Maiden  Queen. 

I  will  attend  my  husband,  .   .   . 

And  will  have  no  attorney  but  myself. 

And  therefore  let  me  have  him  home  with  me. 

Comedy  of  Errors,  v,  i. 

Heaven  prepares  good  men  with  crosses. 

B.  Jonson,  Discoveries. 

My  sister  is  not  so  defenceless  left 

As  you  imagine.  MUton,  Comus. 

All  wild  to  found  an  University 

For  maidens.  Tennyson,  The  Princess,  i. 

At  last 
She  rose  upon  a  wind  of  prophecy. 

Dilating  on  the  future.  Tennyson,  The  Princess,  u. 


For  now  he  lives  in  fame  though  not  in  life.  The  Absent. 

Richard  III,  iii,  i. 

No  tongue !  ...  be  silent.  tempest,  iv,  i. 

Only  silence  SUiteth  best.  Tennyson,  To  J.  s. 


l68  QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS 


The  Absent.  Consider  you  what  services  he  has  done  for 

his  country.  coriolanus,  i,  i. 

Forever  honour'd  and  forever  mourned. 

Pope,  Iliad,  xxii. 

Here,  say  we  drink  this  standing  bowl  of  wine 

to  him.  Pericles,  ii,  3. 

Conspicuous  by  his  absence. 

Lord  John  Russell  (From  Tacitus). 

Here  's  a  health  to  them  that  *s  awa, 

And  here  's  to  them  that  's  awa.  Burns. 

Let  silence  be  commanded.  henry  viii,  ii,  4. 

Not  lost  but  gone  before. 

Matthew  Henry  (  From  Seneca  ). 

There  greet  in  silence,  as  the  dead  are  wont. 

Titus  Andronicus,  i,  i. 

Upon  the  silent  shore  of  memory, 

Wordsworth,  The  Excursion,  vii. 

Let  it  be  tenable  in  your  silence  still,  hamlet,  i,  2. 

Slain  manfully  in  arms 
In  right  and  service  of  their  noble  country. 

Titus  Andronicus,  i,  2. 

No  man  shed  tears  for  noble  Mutius, 

He  lives  in  fame.  titus  andronicus,  i,  2. 

Their  memory 
Shall  as  a  pattern  or  a  measure  live. 

II  Henry  IV,  iv,  4. 

Full  character'd  with  lasting  memory. 

Shakspere,  Sonnets,  cxxii. 


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He  stood  a  soldier  to  the  last  right  end,  ^he  Absent. 

A  perfect  patriot,  and  a  noble  friend. 

B.  Jonson,  A  Pindaric  Ode. 


Gentlemen,  have  a  little  patience,  they  are  spee^hSorfor 

'Vn   iinnn   rnminrr  incfnnfUr  Some  Special 


Speaker. 


e'en  upon  coming  instantly.  ^°slfeaker"^ 

B.  Jonson,  Bartholomew  Fair,  The  Induction. 

Since  you  are  to  bear  this  persecution,  I  will 
at  least  give  you  the  encouragement  of  a  mar- 
tyr, you  could  never  suffer  in  a  nobler  cause. 

Dryden,  Account  prefixed  to  Annus  Mirabilis. 

Where  it  is  so  simple  if  not  so  easy  a  thing  to 
hold  one  's  peace  why  add  to  the  general  confu- 
sion of  tongues  ?  Lowell,  Democracy. 

I  am  not  only  witty  in  myself,  but  the  cause 
that  wit  is  in  other  men.  11  henry  iv,  i,  2. 


Whose  words  all  ears  took  captive,  all  's  Weli., 


V,  3. 


Turn  him  to  any  cause  of  policy. 
The  Gordian  knot  of  it  he  will  unloose. 
Familiar  as  his  garter ;  that  when  he  speaks, 
The  air,  a  charter'd  libertine,  is  still. 

Henry  V,  i,  i. 

This  fellow  pecks  up  wit  as  pigeons  pease, 
And-utters  it  again  when  God  doth  please. 

Love's  Labour's  Lost,  v,  2. 

The  gentleman  is  learned  and  a  most  rare  speaker. 

Henry  VIII,  i,  2. 

But  for  your  words,  they  rob  the  Hybla  bees, 
And  leave  them  honeyless.  Julius  c^esar,  v,  i. 


170  QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS 


Before  ^he  fear  of  every  man  that  heard  him  was, 

peechesorfor    ,,,,,,   "^  -  ' 

Some  Special    lest  he  should  make  an  end.      b.  jonson,  discoveries. 


Speaker. 


When  I  had  spoken  half  an  hour  I  had  told 
them  everything  I  knew  in  the  world  !      Agassiz. 

Thou  canst  not  live  on  this  side  of  the  world, 
feed  well,  drink  tobacco,  and  be  honoured  into 
the  presence,  but  thou  must  be  acquainted  with 
all  sorts  of  men. 

George  Wilktns,  Miseries  of  Inforced  Marriage. 

He  .  .  .  had  an  excellent  phantasy,  brave 
notions  and  gentle  expressions ;  wherein  he 
flowed  with  that  facility,  that  sometimes  it  was 
necessary  he  should  be  stopped. 

B.  Jonson,  Discoveries. 

A  fool  may  talk,  but  a  wise  man  speaks. 

B.  Jonson,  Discoveries. 

Satire,  he  thinks,  you  ought  not  to  expect. 
For  so  Reformed  a  Town,  who  dares  correct  ? 

Congreve,  Prologue  to  The  Way  of  the  World. 

To  be  merry  best  becomes  you ;  for,  out  of 
question  you  were  born  in  a  merry  hour. 

Much  Ado  about  Nothing,  ii,  i. 

I  now  should  wish  another  had  my  place, 
But  that  I  hope  to  come  off  and  with  grace. 

Beaumont  and  Fletcher,  Epilogue  to  The  False  One. 

Well,  we  are  all  mortal,      much  ado  about  nothing,  i,i. 
This  fellow  comes  to  mock  us. 

Gold  or  silver?         Beaumont  and  Fletcher, 'Q-egga.^'s  Bush,  iii. 

Should  he  by  chance  a  Knave  or  Fool  expose. 
That  hurts  none  here,  sure  here  are  none  of  those. 

Congreve^  Prologue  to  The  Way  of  the  World. 


QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS  IJl 


Importance  is  one  thing  and  Learning  's  an-   speSh^J^orfor 
other:  but  a  Debate  's  a  Debate,  that  I  assert.        Some  special 

'  '  speaker. 

Congreve,  The  Way  of  the  World,  ili,  13. 

Language  most  shows  a  man;  speak  that  I 
may  see  thee.  b.  jomon,  discoveries. 

The  words  are  chosen,  their  sound  ample,  the 
composition  full,  the  absolution  plenteous,  and 
poured  out  all  grave,  sinewy  and  strong. 

B.  Jonson,  Discoveries. 

Leave  Business  to  Idlers  and  Wisdom  to  Fools; 
they  have  need  of  'em :  Wit  be  my  Faculty  and 
Pleasure  my  Occupation,  and  let  Father  Time 

shake  his  Glass.  Congreve,  the  old  Batchelor,  i,  I. 

Another  flood  of  words  !    a  very  torrent ! 

B.  Jonson,  Volfone,  iii. 

He  knows  it  is  his  only  art  so  to  carry  it,  as 
none  but  artificers  perceive  it. 

B.  Jonson,  Discoveries. 

I  have  known  many  excellent  men  that  would 
speak  suddenly,  to  the  admiration  of  their  hear- 
ers;  who  upon  study  and  premeditation  have 
been  forsaken  by  their  own  wits,  and  no  way 
answered  their  fame.  b.  jonson,  discoveries. 

Don't  mind  interrupting  them  whenever  any 

thing  strikes  you.  Sheridan,  the  critic,  ii,  2. 

He  utters  them  as  he  had  eaten  ballads. 

Winter's  Tale,  iv,  4. 

His  words,  like  so  many  nimble  and  airy  ser- 
vitors, trip  about  him  at  command. 

Milton,  Apology  for  Smectymnuus. 


Speaker. 


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spee^he^s'orfor  ^  "^^^^  ^^^  follerin  observations 

some^speciai    ExtruHip'ry,  like  most  other  tri'ls  o'  patience. 

Lowell,  BiGLow  Papers,  ii,  11. 

No,  never  say  nothin'  without  you  're  compelled 

tu. 
An'   then    don't  say   nothin'  thet   you    can  be 

held  tu.  Lowell,  BiGLOW  Papers,  ii,  5. 

And  indeed  I  believe  no  man  ever  talked  better. 
Each  sentence  hangs  perfectly  poised  to  a  letter. 

Lowell,  Fable  for  Critics. 

I  am  no  orator  as  Brutus  is. 
But,  as  you  know  me  all,  a  plain  blunt  man. 

Julius  C«:sar,  iii,  2. 

Set  up  an  hour-glass ;  he  '11  go  on  until 
The  last  sand  make  his  period. 

W.  Cariwright,  The  Ordinary,  iii,  5. 

Beginning  of  healths  are  the  premises  and 
pledging  the  conclusion,  for  it  must  not  be  divided. 

Randolph,  Aristippus. 

God  bless  thy  lungs,  good  Knight. 

II  Henry  IV,  v,  5. 

A  jest's  prosperity  lies  in  the  ear 

Of  him  that  hears  it,  never  in  the  tongue 

Of  him  that  makes  it.  love's  labour's  lost,  v,  2. 

Words  do  well 
When  he  that  speaks  them  pleases  those  that  hear. 

As  You  Like  It,  iii,  5. 

It  would  talk, —  Lord  !  how  it  talked  ! 

Beaumont  and  Fletcher,  Scornful  Lady,  v,  i. 

Mingles  with  my  friendly  bowl. 
The  feast  of  reason  and  the  flow  of  soul. 

Pope,  Satires,  i. 


QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS  I73 


Discourse,  the  sweeter  banquet  of  the  mind.  spee^he^orfor 

Pope,  Odyssey^  xv,  433.         Some  Special 


I  think,  or  hope  at  least,  the  coast  is  clear ; 
That  none  but  men  of  wit  and  sense  are  here. 

Dryden,  Prologue  to  Cleomenes. 

I  have  met  many  of  these  rattles  that  made  a 
noise  and  buzzed.     They  had  their  hum,  and  no 

more.  B.  Jonson,  Discoveries. 

Into  the  question  whether  the  ability  to  ex- 
press ourselves  in  articulate  language  has  been 
productive  of  more  good  or  evil,  I  shall  not  here 
enter  at  large.  Loweii,  biglow  papers,  i,  4. 

A  marciful  Providunce  fashioned  us  holler 

O'  purpose  thet  we  might  our  principles  swaller. 

Lowell,  Biglow  Papers,  i,  4. 

An'  John  P. 
Robinson  he 
Sez  this  is  his  view  o'  the  thing  to  a  T. 

Lowell,  Biglow  Papers,  i,  3. 

An'  let  off  the  sp*eeches  they  're  ferful  '11  spile. 

Lowell,  Biglow  Papers,  i,  4. 

An'  ef  a  man  can,  wen  pervisions  hev  riz  so, 
Eat  up  his  own  words,  it  's  a  marcy  it  is  so. 

Lowell,  Biglow  Papers,  i,  4. 

My  unpremeditated  verse  !     MUton,  paradise  lost,  Ix. 

It  is  covenanted  and  agreed  by  and  between 
the  parties  aforesaid,  and  the  said  spectators 
and  hearers  ...  do  for  themselves  severally 
covenant  and  agree  to  remain  in  the  places  their 
money  or  their  friends  have  put  them  in,  with 
patience,  for  the  space  of  two  hours  and  a  half  and 

somewhat  more.      B.  Jonson,  Bartholomew  Fair,  Induction. 


Speaker. 


174 


QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS 


Before 

Speeches  or  for 

Some  Special 

Speaker. 


I  cannot  tell  a  lie,  Father,  I  did  it. 

George  Washington. 

Take  all  in  good  worth  that  is  well  intended, 
for  nothing  is  purposed  but  mirth,  mirth  length- 
eneth  long  life :  which,  with  all  other  blessings  I 

heartily  wish  you.    Dekker,  Pref-ace  to  the  gentle  Craft. 

Let  me  bid  you  welcome  to  your  country,  and 
the  longing  expectation  of  these  friends,  that 
have  almost  languished  for  the  sight  of  you. 

Shackerley  Martnion,  The  Antiquary,  i. 

I  have  been  forcing  my  brain  to  the  composi- 
tion of  a  few  verses  in  behalf  of  your  entertain- 
ment, and  I  never  knew  them  flow  so  dully  from 

me  before.  Shackerley  Marmton,  The  Antiquary,  iv. 


After 
Speeches. 


Ant.     Reach  me  the  paper. 

Leo.     No,  an  author  must  recite  his  own  works. 

Attt.     Then  I  '11  sit  and  sleep ! 

Shackerley  Marmion,  The  Antiquary,  iv. 

What  's  he  that  interrupts  our  quiet  sorrow  ? 

Shackerley  Marmton,  A  Fine  Companion,  iii. 

Cannot  a  gentleman  ruminate  over  his  good 
parts  but  you  must  be  troubling  of  him  ? 

Shackerley  Marmion,  The  Antiquary,  i. 

The  king  himself  did  offer; — What,  I  pray  ? 
He  offered  twice  or  thrice  —  to  go  away  I 

Epigram  on  the  King's  sitting  out  Holyday's  Play, 
The  Marriage  of  the  Arts  (1630). 

Almost  with  ravished  listening,  could  not  find 
His  hour  of  speech  a  minute.  henry  viii,  i,  2 


How  his  silence  drinks  up  this  applause ! 

Troilus  and  Cressida,  ii,  3. 


QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS  IJJ 


Well  said  :  that  was  laid  on  with  a  trowel.  «  After 

Speeches. 
As  You  Like  It,  i,  2. 

The  rest  is  silence.  hamlet,  v,  2. 

But  for  this  box  of  brains  you  had  not  laughed 
to-night.  Buy  this  box  of  brains  and  the  ten- 
ure of  your  wit  shall  be  socage  whereas  now  it 

is  but  fee-simple.  Randolph,  the  conceited  Peddler. 

It  doth  discover  enormity,  I  '11  mark  it  more. 
I  have  not  liked  a  paltry  piece  of  poetry  so  well 

a  good  while.  S.  Jonson,  Bartholomew  Fair,  iii. 

Blest  be  this  minute ;  sanctify  it,  Time, 

'Bove  all  thy  Calendar.  Randolph,  jealous  lovers. 

And  then  dreams  he  .  .  . 
Of  healths  five-fathom  deep,     romeo  and  Juliet,  i,  4. 

Drink  a  health  to  me  for  I  must  hence. 

Taming  of  the  Shrew,  iii,  2. 

I  drink  to  the  general  joy  of  the  whole  table. 

Macbeth,  iii,  4. 

I  would  applaud  thee  to  the  very  echo, 

That  should  applaud  again.  Macbeth,  v,  3. 

Out  of  this  silence  yet  I  pick'd  a  welcome. 

Midsummer  Night's  Dream,  v,  i. 

I  '11  drink  to  Master  Bardolph,  and  to  all  the 
cavaleros  about  London.  11  henry  iv,  v,  3. 

The  less  inducement  he  has  to  tell  all  this,  the 
more,  I  think  you  ought  to  be  obliged  to  him ; 
for  I  'm  sure  you  'd  know  nothing  of  the  matter 

without  it.  Sheridan,  The  Critic,  ii,  2. 


176  QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS 


sptelhes.  ^^^*  '^^  ^^^  ^"^  ^^  ^^^  finest  and  most  laboured 

things I  Skeridan,  The  Critic,  ii,  2. 

He  hath  indeed  better  better'd  expectation 
than  you  must  expect  of  me  to  tell  you  how. 

Much  Ado  about  Nothing,  i,  i. 

I  am  tipsie  with  laughing.  If  I  had  staid 
any  longer  I  should  have  burst,  —  I  must  have 
been  let  out  and  piec'd  in  the  sides  like  an  unsiz'd 

camlet.  Congreve,  The  Way  of  the  World,  iv,  8. 

But  how  is  't  ?  How  is  't  ?  Nay  prithee,  good 
Asinius,  deal  plainly,  do  not  flatter  me,  come, 

now  ?  Dekker,  Satiro-mastix. 

Whilst  we  together  jovial  sit 

Careless,  and  crowned  with  mirth  and  wit, 

We  '11  think  of  all  the  friends  we  know 

And  drink  to  all  worth  drinking  to  !  charies  Cotton. 

A  health ! 
And  here  let  Time  hold  still  his  restless  glass, 
That  not  another  golden  sand  may  fall 
To  measure  how  it  passeth. 

Dekker  and  Ford,  Sun's  Darling,  iv,  i. 

Now  one  other  health 
To  our  grand  patron,  called  Good-fellowship, 
Whose  livery  all  our  people  hereabout 

Are  clad  in.  Dekker  and  Ford,  Sun's  Darling,  iv,  i. 


Chapter  VI 
MISCELLANEOUS 

BICYCLE    MEETS,    AFTERNOON    TEAS,    ETC. 

Will  guard  your  person  while  you  take  your  rest,     Bicycle  Meet. 
And  watch  your  safety.  tempest,  h,  i. 

Punched  full  of  deadly  holes.  Richard  hi,  v,  3. 

As  true  as  truest  horse  that  yet  would  never  tire. 

Midsummer  Night's  Dream,  iii,  i. 

Invent  some  other  tires  ! 

Dekker  and  Ford,  Sun's  Darling,  ii,  i. 

I  am  ...  a  kind  of  lawless  justice  or  usurp- 
ing martialist  of  authority  that  will  kill  any  man 

with  my  Safety.  ShackerUy  Marmwn,  The  Antiquary,  iii. 

We  come  to  be  informed  by  yourselves 
What  the  conditions  of  that  league  must  be. 

I  Henry  VI,  v,  4. 

As  patches  set  upon  a  little  breach 

Discredit  more  in  hiding  of  the  fault 

Than  did  the  fault  before  it  was  so  patched. 

King  John,  iv,  «» 

I  '11  put  a  girdle  round  about  the  earth 

In  forty  minutes.  midsummer  night's  dream,  ii,  i. 

j2  '  177 


17^  QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS 

Bicycle  Meet.  J  g^^  J  g^  .  I^q]^  J^q^  J  gO^ 

Swifter  than  arrow  from  the  Tartar's  bow. 

Midsummer  Night's  Dream,  iii,  2. 

Yet  bear  their  bright  officious  lamps. 

Milton,  Paradise  Lost,  ix. 

Running  away  when  fear  proposes  the  safety. 

All  's  Well,  i,  i. 

With  the  swiftest  wing  of  speed  !  all  's  well,  iii,  2. 
I  like  the  new  tire  .  .  .  excellently. 

Much  Ado,  iii,  4. 

Swift  and  strong  as  new-fledged  eagles. 

Shelley,  Laon,  v. 

Out  of  this  nettle,  danger,  we  pluck  this 
flower,  safety.  i  henry  iv,  ii,  3. 

If  I  did  not  think  thou  had'st  been  an  ignis 
fatuus  or  a  ball  of  Wildfire  there  's  no  purchase 
in  money.  '  i  henry  iv,  iii,  3. 

Arrows  fled  not  swifter  toward  their  aim. 

II  Henry  IV,  i,  i. 

They  that  ride  so,  and  ride  not  warily,  fall. 

Henry  V,  iii,  7. 

I  'm  of  that  mettle,  so  well  pac'd  and  free, 
There  's  no  good  riders  that  use  spur  to  me. 

Middleton,  No  Wit,  no  Help  like  a  Woman's,  i. 

You  ride  by  so  fast  on  the  headlong  blast. 

Shelley,  Faust,  ii. 

Which  gave  my  path  its  safety  as  I  rode. 

Shelley,  Laon,  vi,  44. 

Their  earth-convulsing  wheels  affi-ight  the  city. 

Shelley,  Hellas. 


QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS  ijg 


Speak,  brother,  hast  thou  hurt  thee  with  the  fall  ?    Bicycle  Meet. 

Titus  Andronicus,  ii,  3. 

Things  which  swiftest  move  seem  to  stand  still. 

Cowley,  Brutus. 

Swift  as  light  thoughts  their  empty  carrier  run, 

Thy  race  is  finished  when  begun ; 

Let  a  post-angel  start  with  thee, 
And  thou  the  goal  of  earth  shalt  reach  as  soon 

as  ne.  Cowley,  Hymn  to  Light. 

Whirled  by  whim.  t.  PartuU,  To  an  old  beauty. 

Ring  your  bells.  king  John,  ii,  2. 

Her  hardy  face  repels  the  tanning  wind. 

T.  Pamell,  Health. 

Not  half  so  swiftly  shoot  along  in  air 
The  gliding  lightning  or  descending  star. 

Pope,  Tr.  of  Statius. 

When  you  whirl  round  the  circle,    sheiiey,  faust,  ii 
On  their  own  axis  as  the  planets  run. 

Pope,  Essay  on  Man,  iii. 

Shall  gravitation  cease  if  you  go  by  ? 

Pope,  Essay  on  Man,  iv. 

Swift,  erect  and  unconfined. 
Sweeps  the  wide  earth,  and  tramples  o'er  man- 
kind. Pope,  Iliad,  ix,  628. 

The  tempest  itself  lags  behind. 

And  the  swift-winged  arrows  of  light. 

Cowper,  Verses  supposed  to  be  written  by  Alexander  Selkirk. 

Sing,  riding  's  a  joy !     For  me  I  ride.     Browning. 


t8o  QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS 


Bicycle  Meet.      A  Warning  bell.  I  Henry  VI,  iv,  2. 

Turn,  turn  my  wheel !     Turn  round  and  round 

Without  a  pause,  without  a  sound. 

So  spins  the  flying  world  away.  Long/eiio-w,  kkramos. 

Patchin'  our  patent  self-blow-up  agin  ! 

Lowell,  BiGLOW  Papers,  ii,  6. 

Fare  you  well  ...  I  must  a  dozen  mile  to-night. 

II  Henry  IV,  iii,  2. 

Do  you  think  me  a  swallow,  an  arrow,  or  a  bullet  ? 

II  Henry  IV,  iv,  3. 

My  mind  exceeds  the  compass  of  her  wheel. 

III  Henry  VI,  iv,  3. 

Firm,  rapid  and  elate.  5;i^//o',  national  anthem. 

The  spirit  of  the  time  shall  teach  me  speed. 

King  John,  iv,  2. 

But,  chief  of  all,  your  safety  !  king  John,  iv,  2. 

I  was  forced  to  wheel 
Three  or  four  miles  about.  Coriolanus,  i,  6. 

Strong  as  the  axletree 
On  which  heaven  rides.         troilus  and  cressida,  i,  3. 


Their  speed  makes  night  kindle. 

Shelley,  Prometheus  Unbound,  ii,  4. 

Attend  me  where  I  wheel,  troilus  and  cressida,  v,  7. 
Let  go  thy  hold  when  a  great  wheel  runs  down 

a  hill.  Lear,  ii,  4. 


QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS  iBl 


The  wheel  has  come  full  circle,  I  am  here.  ^^^^y*^^'^  m««*- 

Lear,  v,  3- 

Posters  of  the  sea  and  land, 

Thus  do  go  about,  about.  Macbeth,  i,  3. 

The  handle  toward  my  hand.  Macbeth,  h,  i. 

Oh,  how  the  wheel  becomes  it.  hamlet,  iv,  s. 

Then  may  I  set  the  world  on  wheels. 

Two  Gentlemen  of  Verona,  iii,  i. 

I  would  give  all  my  fame  for  a  pot  of  ale  and 
safety.  henky  v,  iii,  2. 

This  world  to  me  is  like  a  lasting  storm. 
Whirring  me  from  my  friends.  Pericles,  Iv,  i. 

This  quick  revolving  wheel  shall  rest  in  peace. 

Petrarch,  Triumph  of  Eternity. 

I  have  speeded  hither  with  the  very  extremest 
inch  of  possibility.  11  henry  iv,  iv,  3. 

Her  silent  course  advance 
With  inoffensive  pace,  that  spinning  sleeps 
On  her  soft  axle.  Mnton,  paradise  lost,  viii,  163. 

With  centric  and  eccentric  scribbled  o'er. 
Cycle  and  epicycle,  orb  in  orb. 

Milton,  Paradise  Lost,  viii,  83. 

We  the  globe  can  compass  soon, 
Swifter  than  the  wandering  moon. 

Midsummer  Night's  Dream,  iv,  i. 

Dark  night  strangles  the  travelling  lamp. 

Macbeth,  ii,  4. 


l82  QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS 

Bicycle  Meet.    ^  reasonable  hunting  face  to  court  the  wind  with. 

Beaumont  and  Fletcher,  The  Elder  Brother,  iii.. 

Therefore  bear  you  the  lantern. 

Much  Ado  about  Notjiing,  iii,  3. 

But  say  I  warned  ye ; 
Take  heed,  for  heaven's  sake,  take  heed. 

Henry  VIII,  iii,  i. 

That  haunted  us  in  our  familiar  paths. 

Henry  V,  ii,  4. 

With  smooth  but  arrowy  speed. 

Shelley,  Laon,  xii,  19. 

Your  fine  elegant  rascal,  that  can  rise, 
And  stoop,  almost  together ;  .  .  . 
Shoot  through  the  air  as  nimbly  as  a  star ; 
Turn  short  as  doth  a  swallow ;  and  be  here, 
And  there,  and  here,  and  yonder,  all  at  once. 

B.  Jonson,  Volpone,  iii. 

The  Knight  of  the  burning  lamp,    i  henry  iv,  iii,  3. 

And  have 
The  citizens  gape  at  her  and  praise  her  tires. 

B.  Jonson,  The  Alchemist,  iv. 

There  is  no  turnspit  dog  bound  to  his  wheel 
more  servilely  than  you  shall  be  to  her  wheel. 

Marston,  Chapman  and  Jonson,  Eastward  Ho,  ii,  3. 
Turns  by  its  handle.  Shelley,  the  Cyclops. 

Shall  blow  each  dust,  each  straw,  each  little  rub. 

Out  of  the  path.  king  John,  iii,  4. 

Any  thing  that 's  mended  is  but  patched. 

Twelfth  Night,  i,  5. 

Keep  then  the  path.  troilus  and  cressida,  iii,  3. 


QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS  183 

Will  this  gear  ne'er  be  mended  ?  Bicycle  Meet. 

Troilus  and  Cressida,  i,  i. 

Their  flight  must  be  swifter  than  fire. 

Shelley,  Prometheus  Unbound,  ii,  5. 

Peering  in  maps  for  .  .   .  roads. 

Merchant  of  Venice,  i,  i. 

Taught  their  manage,  and  to  that  end  riders 
dearly  hired.  As  You  like  It,  i,  i. 

Come,  wilt  thou  see  me  ride  ?         i  henry  iv,  ii,  3. 

Is  't  far  you  ride  ? 

As  far,  my  lord,  as  will  fill  up  the  time 

'Twixt  this  and  supper.  Macbeth,  iii,  X. 

My  custom  always  of  the  afternoon,     hamlet,  i,  5.  Tea. 

To  the  Dominion  of  the  Tea-table  I  submit 
.  .  .  but  restrain  yourself  to  native  and  simple 
Tea-table  drinks,  as  Tea,  Chocolate  and  Coffee. 

Congreve,  The  Way  of  the  World,  iv,  5. 

For  her  own  breakfast  she  '11  project  a  scheme. 
Nor  take  her  tea  without  a  stratagem. 

Young,  Love  of  Fame. 

Tired  nature's  sweet  restorer. 

Young,  Night  Thoughts,  i. 

To  warm  without  heating,  to  cheer  but  not 

inebriate.  Bishop  Berkeley,  SiRis. 

The  bubbling  and  loud-hissing  urn 
Throws  up  a  steamy  column,  and  the  cups 
That  cheer  but  not  inebriate  wait  on  each. 

Cowper,  The  Task,  iv. 


184  QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS 


Teao  Sweet  converse  sipping  calm  the  fragrant  lymph. 

Cowper,  The  Task  iii. 

Thank  God  for  tea  !  What  would  the  world 
do  without  tea  !  How  did  it  exist  ?  I  am  glad 
I  was  not  born  before  tea.  sidmy  smith,  memoir,  i,  383. 

I  wish  they  would  be  quiet  and  let  me  drink 

my  tea.  Swi/t,  polite  conversations,  iii. 

Miss,  will  you  be  so  kind  as  to  fill  me  a  dish  of 

tea.  Swift,  Polite  Conversations,  ii. 

Indeed,  Madam,  your  ladyship  is  very  sparing 
of  your  tea:  I  protest  the  last  I  took  was  no 
more  than  water  bewitched. 

Swift,  Polite  Conversations,  i. 

Madam,  I  have  burnt  my  hand  with  your 
plaguey  tea-kettle.  swi/t,  polite  conversations,  i. 

They  called  for  tea  and  chocolate 

And  fell  into  their  usual  chat. 
/ 

Swift,  Cadenus  and  Vanessa. 

And  afterwards  I  did  send  for  a  cup  of  tee  (a 
China  drink),  of  which  I  never  had  drunk  before. 

Pepys,  Diary,  Sept.  2£,  1660. 

At  every  word  a  reputation  dies. 

Pope,  Rape  of  the  Lock,  iii,  15. 

Here  thou,  great  Anna  !  whom  three  realms  obey. 
Dost  sometimes  council  take — and   sometimes 

tea.  Pope,  Rape  of  the  Lock,  iii,  7. 

Tea  !  Thou  soft,  thou  sober,  sage  and  venerable 
liquid,  thou  innocent  pretence  for  bringing  the 
wicked  of  both  sexes  together  in  a  morning. 

Gibber,  Lady's  Last  Stake,  i. 


QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS  l8^ 


What  a  deal   of  cold   business  doth  a  man  Tea 

mispend  the  better  part  of  life  in  !  In  scattering 
compliments,  tendering  visits,  gathering  and  vent- 
ing news,  following  feasts  and  plays,  making  a 
little  winter-love  in  dark  corners. 

B.  Jonson,  Discoveries. 

Ladies,  your  most  obedient  —  mercy  on  me! 
here  is  the  whole  set !  a  character  dead  at  every 

word  I   suppose.  SIteridan,  School  for  Scandal,  ii,  2. 

Strong  tea  and  scandal — *'  Bless  me  how  refresh- 
ing !  "     Garrick,  Prologue  to  Sheridan's  School  for  Scandal. 

''What   brought   you    here?"  — '^  Oh    nothing 

very  rare, 
Six  Tartars  and  a  drag- chain." 

Byron,  Don  Juan,  v,  15. 

The  dial  points  at  five.  comedy  of  errors,  v,  i. 

Soon  at  five  o'clock 
Please  you  I  '11  meet  with  you. 

Comedy  of  Errors,  i,  2. 

T  is  almost  five  o'clock,  cousin  ;  't  is  time  you 
were  ready.  much  ado  about  nothing,  lii,  4. 

Our  author  fears  not  you  ;  but  those  he  may 
Who,  in  cold  blood,  murder  a  man  in  Tea. 

Farquhar,  Epilogue  to  the  Constant  Couple. 

There  they  '11  talk  you  dead. 

Pope,  Essay  on  Criticism. 

They  gossip'd  side  by  side.  cowper,  the  task,  v. 

Come  you  this  afternoon.  romeo  and  Juliet,  i,  i. 


l86  QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS 

Tea.  Small  is  the  rest  of  those  who  would  be  smart, 

A  moment's  good  thing  may  have  cost  them  years 
Before  they  find  an  hour  to  introduce  it ; 
And  even  theUy  some  bore  may  make  them  lose  it. 

Byron,  Don  Juan,  xiii,  109. 

No,  Madam,  my  constant  Drink  is  Tea,  or  a 
little  Wine  and  Water ;  't  is  prescrib'd  me  by  the 
Physicians  for  a  Remedy  against  the  Spleen. 

Farquhar,  The  Beaux'  Stratagem,  iii. 

Moved  bj^  the  Chinese  nymph  of  tears,  green  tea  ! 

Byron,  Don  Juan,  iv,  52. 

Then  there  was  small-talk  ready  when  required  ; 
Flirtation  —  but  decorous.      Byron,  don  juan,  xiii,  los. 

Thou  Female-Tongue-running,  Smile-Smooth- 
ing, Heart-opening,  Wink-tipping  Cordial. 

Cibber,  The  Lady's  Last  Stake,  i. 

FOURTH  OF  JULY 
Fourth  of  July.    What  IS  the  fourth  ?  Pericles,  ii,  2. 

A  July's  day.  winter's  tale,  i,  2. 

Declare  the  cause.  i  henry  vi,  ii,  s- 

Less  noise,  less  noise  !  11  henry  iv,  iv,  5. 

What  time  we  will  our  celebration  keep. 

Twelfth  Night,  iv,  3. 

They  are  ever  forward 
In  celebration  of  this  day.  henry  viii,  iv,  i. 

What  cracker  is  this  same  that  deafs  our  ears  ? 

King  John,  ii,  i. 


QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS  187 


The  nimble  gunner  Fourth  of  juiy. 

With  linstock  now  the  devilish  cannon  touches. 

Henry  V,  iii  (Prologue). 

Zounds,  I  am  afraid  of  this  gunpowder. 

I  Henry  IV,  v,  4. 

You  must  understand  he  goes  but  to  see  a 
noise  that  he  heard.        midsummer  night's  dream,  iii,  i. 

Cry  out  "Liberty,  Freedom  and  Enfranchise- 
ment I  Julius  C^sar,  iii,  i. 

Let  's  all  cry  "Peace,  Freedom  and  Liberty." 

Julius  C^sar,  iii,  1. 

Ah!  what  noise  is  that  ? 

Your  pardon,  Madam;  only  a  harmless  enter- 
tainment after  my  own  country  fashion. 

Gibber,  The  Double  Gallant,  v. 

An'  folks  don't  want  Fourth  o'  July  t'  interfere 
With  the  business-consarns  o'  the  rest  of  the  Year. 

Lowell,  BiGLOw  Papers,  ii,  5. 
FOR    A   THANKSGIVING    SERVICE    OR    DINNER 

We  yield  thee  unfeigned  thanks  and  praise,  as  Service, 

for  all  thy  mercies,  so  especially  for  the  returns 
of  seed-time  and  harvest,  and  for  crowning  the 
year  with  thy  goodness  in  the  increase  of  the 
ground,  and  the  gathering  in  of  the  fruits  thereof. 

Thanksgiving,  Book  of  Common  Prayer. 

We  give  thee  humble  and  hearty  thanks  for 
this  thy  bounty :  beseeching  thee  to  continue  thy 
loving  kindness  to  us;  that  our  land  may  still 
yield  her  increase,  to  thy  glory  and  our  comfort. 

Collect  for  Thanksgiving  Day,  Book  of  Common  Prayer. 


QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS 


Service.  Give  thanks    unto    the   Lord,  call    upon   his 

name,  make  known  his  deeds  among  the  people. 

I  Chronicles,  xvi,  8. 

Sing  unto  him,  sing  psalms  unto  him,  talk  ye 
of  all  his  wondrous  works.  i  chronicles,  xvi,  9. 

Glory  and  honour  are  in  his  presence  ;  strength 
and  gladness  are  in  his  place.       i  chronicles,  xvi,  27. 

Give  unto  the  Lord  the  glory  due  unto  his 
name:  bring  an  offering  and  come  before  him: 
worship  the  Lord  in  the  beauty  of  hoHness. 

I  Chronicles,  xvi,  29. 

O  give  thanks  unto  the  Lord ;  for  he  is  good ; 
for  his  mercy  endureth  forever. 

I  Chronicles,  xvi,  34. 

Be  thou  exalted,  Lord,  in  thine  own  strength  : 
so  will  we  sing  and  praise  thy  power. 

Psalms,  xxi,  13. 

Bless  the  Lord,  O  my  soul,  and  forget  not  all 
his  benefits.  psalms,  ciii,  2. 

Who  redeemeth  thy  life  from  destruction  ;  who 
crowneth  thee  with  lovingkindness  and  tender 
mercies.  psalms,  dii,  4. 

Who  satisfieth  thy  mouth  with  good  things;  so 
that  thy  youth  is  renewed  like  the  eagle's. 

Psalms,  ciii,  5. 

Great  is  the  Lord,  and  greatly  to  be  praised ; 
and  his  greatness  is  unsearchable,      psalms,  cxiv,  3. 

They  shall  abundantly  utter  the  memory  of 
thy  great  goodness,  and  shall  sing  of  thy  right- 
eousness. Psalms,  cxlv,  7. 


QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS  189 


The  eyes  of  all  wait  upon  thee ;  and  thou  givest  Service, 

them  their  meat  in  due  season.  psalms,  cxiv,  15. 

Thou  openest  thine  hand,  and  satisfiest  the 
desire  of  every  living  thing.  psalms,  cxiv,  16. 

I  had  gone  with  the  multitude,  I  went  with 
them  to  the  house  of  God,  with  the  voice  of  joy 
and  praise,  with  a  multitude  that  kept  holyday. 

Psalms,  xlii,  4. 

Make  a  joyful  noise  unto  the  Lord,  all  the 
earth;  make  a  loud  noise,  and  rejoice,  and  sing 
praise.  psalms,  xcviu,  4. 

Sing  unto  the  Lord  with  the  harp ;  with  the 
harp,  and  the  voice  of  a  psalm.         psalms,  xcviii,  5. 

With  trumpets  and  sound  of  cornet  make  a 
joyful  noise  before  the  Lord,  the  King. 

Psalms,  xcviii,  6. 

Honour  the  Lord  with  thy  substance,  and 
with  the  first-fruits  of  all  thine  increase. 

Proverbs,  iii,  9. 

So  shall  thy  barns  be  filled  with  plenty,  and 
thy  presses  shall  burst  out  with  new  wine. 

Proverbs,  iii,  10. 

It  is  a  good  thing  to  give  thanks  unto  the 
Lord,  and  to  sing  praises  unto  thy  name,  O  most 

irllgn.  Psalms,  xcii,  i. 

Offer  unto  God  thanksgiving;  and  pay  thy 
vows  unto  the  most  High.  psalms,  i,  14. 

I  will  go  into  thy  house  with  burnt  offer- 
ings :  I  will  pay  thee  my  vows.         psalms,  ixvi,  13. 


190  QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS 


Service.  Q   biess  our  God,  ye  people,  and  make  the 

voice  of  his  praise  to  be  heard.  psalms,  ixvi,  s. 

Let  us  come  before  his  presence  with  thanks- 
giving, and  make  a  joyful  noise  unto  him  with 

psalms.  Psalms,  xcv,  2. 

Praise  the  Lord,  O  Jerusalem;  praise  thy 
God,  O  Zion. 

For  he  hath  strengthened  the  bars  of  thy  gates; 
he  hath  blessed  thy  children  within  thee. 

Psalms,  cxlvii,  12-13. 

Being  enriched  in  every  thing  to  all  bountiful- 
ness,  which  causeth  through  us  thanksgiving  to 

vJOd.  II  Corinthians,  ix,  u. 

Then  he  said  unto  them.  Go  your  way,  eat  the 
fat,  and  drink  the  sweet,  and  send  portions  unto 
them  for  whom  nothing  is  prepared  :  for  this  day 
is  holy  unto  our  Lord:  neither  be  ye  sorry; 
for  the  joy  of  the  Lord  is  your  strength. 

Nehemiah,  viii,  10. 

But  rather  seek  ye  the  kingdom  of  God ;  and 
all  these  things  shall  be  added  unto  you. 

Luke,  xii,  31, 

Tell  them  which  are  bidden.  Behold  I  have 
prepared  my  dinner:  my  oxen  and  my  fatlings 
are  killed,  and  all  things  are  ready. 

Matthew,  xxii,  4. 

If  they  obey  and  serve  him  they  shall  spend 
their  days  in  prosperity,  and  their  years  in  pleas- 
ures. Job,  xxxvi,  11. 


QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS  I9I 


Also  that  day  they  offered  great  sacrifices,  and  service, 

rejoiced :  for  God  had  made  them  rejoice  with  great 
joy ;  the  wives  also,  and  the  children  rejoiced  : 
so  that  the  joy  of  Jerusalem  was  heard  even  afar 

off.  Nehemiah,  xii,  43. 

The  earth  is  the  Lord's  and  the  fullness  thereof. 

Psalms,  xxiv,  i. 

Thy  rich  leas 
Of  wheat,  rye,  barley,  vetches,  oats  and  pease. 

Tempest,  iv,  i. 

Get  thee  to  church  o'  Thursday. 

Romeo  and  Juliet,  iii,  5. 


He  did  receive  his  letters  and  is  coming.  Dinner, 

Julius  C^sar,  iii,  i. 

God  will  send  more  if  the  man  will  be  thankful. 

As  You  Like  It,  iii,  2. 

For  aught  I  see  they  are  as  sick  that  surfeit 
with  too  much,  as  they  that  starve  with  nothing. 

Merchant  op  Venice,  i,  2. 

I  must  eat  my  dinner.  tempest,  i,  2. 

We  sit  to  chat  as  well  as  eat, 

Nothing  but  sit  and  sit  and  eat  and  eat ! 

Taming  of  the  Shrew,  v,  2. 

Earth's  increase,  foison  plenty, 

Barns  and  garners  never  empty.         tempest,  iv,  i. 

We  therefore  have  great  cause  of  thankfulness. 

Henry  V,  ii,  2. 

Without  the  which  there  were  no  expectation 
of  our  prosperity.  othello,  a,  i. 


192 


QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS 


Dinner.  Surfcit  IS  the  father  of  much  fast. 

Measure  for  Measure,  i,  3. 

I  will  come  home  to  you,  or  if  you  will 
Come  home  to  me.  juuus  c^sar,  i, ». 

With  smiling  plenty,  and  fair  prosperous  days ! 

Richard  III,  v,  5. 

O,  't  is  sweet 
To  fool  when  friends  come  home  again ! 

Horace,  Odes,  ii,  7. 

But  what  say  you  to  Thursday  ?  .  .  . 

O'  Thursday  be  it  then.  romeo  and  Juliet,  hi,  4. 

I  think  it  rather  consists  of  eating  and  drinking. 

Twelfth  Night,  ii,  3. 

We  shall 
Do  nothing  but  eat  and  make  good  cheer. 

II  Henry  IV,  v,  5. 

(For  Thanksgiving  Turkey  see  page  ^j.) 

CLUB    DUES 
Club  Dues.  So  yOU  shall  pay  your  fees.  Winter's  Tale,  i,  2. 

Consent  to  pay  this  sum.         comedy  of  errors,  iv,  i. 
To  pay  ourselves  what  to  ourselves  is  debt. 

Hamlet,  iii,  2. 

Too  little  payment  for  so  great  a  debt. 

Taming  of  the  Shrew,  v,  2. 

Yet  that  were  but  light  payment. 

II  Henry  IV(Epil.). 


QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS  193 

He  .  .  .  prays  your  speedy  payment  ciubDues, 

TiMON  OF  Athens,  ii,  2. 
To  whom  't  is  instant  due.  Timon  of  Athens,  ii,  2. 

I  must  trouble  you  again.  i  henry  vi,  v,  3. 

Pray  you,  take  note  of  it.     measure  for  measure,  v,  i. 
Give  them  their  charge,  Neighbour. 

Much  Ado,  iii,  3. 

Pardon  me,  I  am  but  a  guiltless  messenger. 

As  You  Like  It,  iv,  3. 

My  lord,  vouchsafe  me  a  word  with  you. 

Hamlet,  iii,  a. 

This  weighty  business  will  not  brook  delay. 

II  Henry  VI,  i,  i. 

We  wait  for  certain  money  here. 

Timon  of  Athens,  iii,  4. 

Defer  no  time,  delays  have  dangerous  ends. 

I  Henry  VI,  iii,  2. 

I  am  thus  bold  to  put  your  Grace  in  mind 
Of  what  you  promised  me.  Richard  hi,  iv,  2. 

I  have  promised,  and  I  '11  be  as  good  as  my 

word.  Merry  Wives  of  Windsor,  iii,  4. 

What 's  to  come  is  still  unsure,  twelfth  night,  ii,  3. 
This  they  have  promised.  11  Henry  vi,  i,  2. 

He  was  ever  precise  in  promise-keeping. 

Measure  for  Measure,  i,  2. 

I  have  observed  thee  always  for  a  towardly 

prompt  spirit.  Timon  of  Athens,  iii,  i. 

13 


Club  Dues. 


194  QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS 

Be  pleased  then 
To  pay  that  duty  which  you  truly  owe. 

King  John,  u,  i. 

Let  me  remember  thee  what  thou  hast  prom- 
ised. Tempest,  i,  2. 

The  image  of  it  gives  me  content  already. 

Measure  for  Measure,  iii,  i. 

Here  comes  one  with  a  paper. 

Love's  Labour's  Lost,  iv,  3. 
Give  him  this  letter.  merchant  of  Venice,  ii,  3. 

Haply  I  see  a  friend  will  save  my  life 

And  pay  the  sum.  comedy  of  errors,  v,  i.  • 

I  come  by  note,  to  give  and  to  receive. 

Merchant  of  Venice,  iii,  2. 

We  think  ourselves  unsatisfied 
Till  he  hath  found  a  time  to  pay  us. 

I  Henry  IV,  i,  3. 

Who  never  promiseth  but  he  means  to  pay. 

I  Henry  IV,  v,  4. 

You  '11  pay  me  altogether? 

Will  I  live  ?  II  Henry  IV,  ii,  i. 

Doubt  not  of  the  day.  iii  henry  vi,  iv,  ^. 

Words  pay  no  debts.  Troilus  and  Cressida,  iii,  2, 

With  more  than  common  thanks  I  will  receive  it. 

TiMON  OF  Athens,  i,  2. 

I  '11  take  thy  word  for  faith,  not  ask  thine  oath. 

Pericles,  i,  2. 


QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS  IQJ 


A  word  with  one  of  you.  Romeo  and  Juliet,  iii,  I.  ^^^^  ^"««* 

I  know  this  is  a  joyful  trouble  to  you ; 

But  yet  't  is  one.  Macbeth,  ii,  3. 

The  reason  of  this  ? 

I  could  render  one.  Timon  of  Athens,  ii,  2. 

You  will  not  pay  for  the  glasses  you  have  burst? 

The  Taming  of  the  Shrew  (Induction).  | 

Knowing  how  the  debt  grows,  I  will  pay  it. 

Comedy  of  Errors,  iv,  4. 

Two-hundred -pound  suppers  and  neither  fid-  ^ 
lers  nor  broken  glasses  reckoned. 

Dekker  and  Ford,  Sun's  Darling,  iv,  i. 

As  I  say,  paying  for  them  very  honestly. 

Measure  for  Measure,  ii,  1. 
Every  tod  yields.  Winter's  Tale,  iv,  3. 

Oh,  he  that  has  no  credit  owes  no  debts  ! 

T  is  time  I  were  rid  on  't.  Middkton,  the  phcenix,  ii,  2. 


GAMES 

mottos  for  prizes  or  headings  for  notices 
of  meetings,  etc. 

When  we  have  matched  our  rackets  to  these  Tennis. 

balls.  Henry  V,  i,  2. 

You  shall  be  welcome,  madam,  to  my  court. 

Love's  Labour's  Lost,  ii,  1. 


196  QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS 

Tennis.  i^  is  not  Strength  but  art  obtains  the  prize. 

Pope,  Iliad,  xxiii,  383. 

Balk'd  are  the  Courts,  and  contest  is  no  more. 

Pope^  Moral  Essays,  iii,  272. 

And  courts  to  courts  return  it  round  and  round. 

Pope,  D  UNCI  AD,  ii,  264. 

Players  that  offer  service. 

Taming  of  the  Shrew  (Induction). 

He  served  with  glory  and  admired  success. 

Cymbeline,  i,  I. 

Play  a  set.  henry  v,  i,  2. 

Item,  that  no  woman  shall  come  within  a  mile 

of  my  court.  love's  labour's  Lost,  i,  i. 

The  faith  they  have  in  tennis  and  tall  stockings. 

Henry  VIII,  i,  3. 

Thou  never  sawest  my  new  gallery  and  my 

tennis-court.  Middleton,  world  Tost  at  Tennis. 

To  be  swift  is  less  than  to  be  wise. 

Pope,  Iliad,  xxiii,  384. 

'T  is  more  by  art  than  force  of  num'rous  strokes. 

Pope,  Iliad,  xxiii,  385. 

The  poorest  service  is  repaid  with  thanks. 

Taming  of  the  Shrew,  iv,  3. 


Base-baii.         Why  these  balls  bound ;  there  's  noise  in  it. 

All  's  Well  That  Ends  Well,  ii,  3. 

But  make  you  ready  your 
Stiff  bats  and  clubs.  Coriolanus,  i,  i. 

Swift  vengeance  waits,  and  art  subdues  the  strong. 

Pope,  Odyssey,  viii,  368. 


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Like  a  disabled  pitcher,  of  no  use.  Base-baii. 

Blair,  The  Grave. 

Where  go  you 
With  bats  and  clubs  ?  Coriolanus,  i,  i. 

And  when  he  caught  it  he  let  it  go  again ;  and 

after  it  again.  Coriolanus,  i,  3. 

I  '11  catch  it  ere  it  come  to  ground. 

Macbeth,  iii,  5. 

Could  I  but  catch  it  for  them. 

TiMON  OF  Athens,  v,  i. 

There  's  goodly  catching.  much  ado,  ih,  4. 

There  be  some  sports  are  painful,  and  their  labour 
Delight  in  them  sets  off.  tempest,  m,  i. 


An  I  thought   he   had    been  valiant  and  so  Fencing, 

cunning  in  fence,  I  'Id  have  seen  him  damned 
ere  I  'Id  have  challenged  him.   twelfth  night,  iii,  4. 

Let  the  foils  be  brought,  the  gentleman  willing. 

Hamlet,  v,  2. 

That  hath  so  well  been  taught  her  dazzling  fence. 

Milton,  CoMUS. 

A  Master  of  Fence  is  more  honourable  than  a 
Master  of  Arts;   for   good  fighting  was  before 

good  writing.  Marston,  The  Mountebank's  Masque. 

Boy.     Sure,  you  must  needs  be  very  strong  then. 
Bravo.     Not  so,  neither,    't  is  courage  in  me. 

I  do  it  by  a  sleight,  an  activity,  and  by  that  I 

can  control  any  man's  point  whatever. 

Shackerley  Marmion,  The  Antiquary,  iii. 


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Fencing.  Strong-jointcd   Samson  f     I  do  excel  thee  in 

my  rapier  as  much  as  thou  didst  me  in  carrying 

gates.  Love's  Labour's  Lost,  i,  2. 

A  hit,  a  very  palpable  hit.  hamlet,  v,  2. 

Blunt  as  the  fencers'  foils,  which  hit  but  hurt  not. 

Much  Ado,  v,  2. 

I  had  a  pass  with  him,  rapier,  scabbard  and  all. 

Twelfth  Night,  iii,  4. 

Between  the  pass  and  fell  incensed  points 

Of  mighty  opposites.  hamlet,  v,  2. 

Ay,  there  's  the  point,  sir. 
Marry,  is  it ;  the  very  point  of  it. 

Merry  Wives  of  Windsor,  i,  i. 

Many  wearing  rapiers  are  afraid  of  goose-quills. 

Hamlet,  il,  2. 

And  gave  you  such  a  masterly  report 

For  art  and  exercise  in  your  defence 

And  for  your  rapier  most  especial,     hamlet,  iv,  7. 


Archery.  Draw,  archcrs,  draw  your  arrows  to  the  head ! 

Richard  III,  v,  3. 

Many  arrows,  loosed  several  ways, 

Come  to  one  mark.  henry  v,  i,  2. 

T  was  I  won  the  wager,  though  you  hit  the  white. 

Taming  of  the  Shrew,  v,  2. 

A  well-experienced  archer  hits  the  mark 

His  eye  doth  level  at.  Pericles,  i,  I. 


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199 


A  mark  marvellous  well  shot,  for  they  both 

did  hit  it.  Love's  Labour's  Lost,  iv,  i. 


Archery. 


Well  won  is  still  well  shot. 


King  John,  i,  i. 


I  am  your  butt  and  I  abide  your  shot. 

Ill  Henry  VI,  i,  4. 

A'  drew  a  good  bow ;  and  dead  !  a'  shot  a  fine 

shoot.  II  Henry  IV,  lii,  2. 


You  have  hit  the  mark. 


Henry  VIII,  ii,  i. 


A  health  to  all  that  shot  and  miss'd. 

Taming  of  the  Shrew,  v,  2. 


A  jewel 
Well  worth  a  poor  man's  taking.  lear,  iv,  6. 

Lest  too  light  winning  make  the  prize  light. 

Tempest,  i,  2. 

'T  is  deeds  must  win  the  prize. 

Taming  of  the  Shrew,  ii,  i. 

Win  me  and  wear  me.     much  ado  about  nothing,  v,  i. 

Both  tugging  to  be  victors,  breast  to  breast, 
Yet  neither  conqueror.  iii  henry  vi,  ii,  5. 


Prizes. 


This  monument  of  the  victory  will  I  bear. 

II  Henry  VI,  iv,  3. 

And  is  not  this  an  honourable  spoil  ? 

A  gallant  prize  ?  i  henry  iv,  i,  i. 


Myself  did  win  them  both. 


II  Henry  VI,  i,  i. 


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P^^^^s-  Such  rewards 

As  victors  wear  at  the  Olympian  games. 

in  Henry  VI,  ii,  3. 

Now  are  our  brows  bound  with  victorious  wreaths. 

Richard  III,  i,  i. 

A  victory  is  twice   itself  when  the   achiever 
brings  home  full  numbers. 

Much  Ado  about  Nothing,  i,  i. 
Victory  sits  on  our  helms.  Richard  III,  V,  3. 

To  whom  this  wreath  of  victory  I  give. 

Pericles,  ii,  3. 

We  are  the  Jasons,  we  have  won  the  fleece. 

Merchant  of  Venice,  iii,  2. 

You  won  it,  wore  it,  kept  it.  ii  henry  iv,  iv,  5. 

He  proved  best  man  i'  the  field.       coriolanus,  ii,  2. 

Best  of  all 
Amongst  the  rarest  of  good  ones,     cymbkline,  v,  5. 

I  am  the  best  of  them.  tempest,  i,  2. 

She  shall  be  dignified  with  this  high  honour. 

Two  Gentlemen  of  Verona,  ii,  4. 

We  have  with  a  leaven'd  and  prepared  choice 
Proceeded  to  you ;  therefore  take  your  honours. 

Measure  for  Measure,  i,  i. 

Some  certain  special  honours  it  pleaseth  his 
greatness  to  impart.  love's  labour's  lost,  v,  i. 

Here  .  .  .  take  this  reward ;  make  merry,  man. 

II  Henry  VI,  i,  2. 


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Hath  any  well-advised  friend  proclaimed  Reward?  Prizes. 

Richard  III,  iv,  4. 

Honour,  high  honour  and  renown ! 

As  You  Like  It,  v,  4. 

I  wear  it  for  a  memorable  honour,      henry  v,  Iv,  ^. 
Shall  we  wear  these  honours  for  a  day? 

Or  shall  they  last  ?  Richard  III,  iv,  2. 

Must  be  as  boisterously  maintained  as  gain'd. 

King  John,  iii,  4. 

O  well  done  !  I  commend  your  pains. 

Macbeth,  iv,  i. 

Besides  commends  and  courteous  breath. 

Gifts  of  rich  value.  merchant  of  Venice,  ii,  9. 

The  mightier  man,  the  mightier  is  the  thing 
That  makes  him  honoured.  shaks^ere,  lucrece. 

What  strong  hand  can  hold  his  swift  foot  back  ? 

Shakspere,  Sonnets,  Ixv. 

His  glory  is  to  subdue  men. 

Love's  Labour's  Lost,  i,  2. 

Being  too  strong  for  him,  though  he  took  up 
my  legs  sometime,  yet  I  made  shift  to  cast  him. 

Macbeth,  ii,  3. 

With  surety  stronger  than  Achilles'  arm. 

Troilus  and  Cressida,  i,  3. 

If  thou  dost  play  with  him  at  any  game, 

Thou  art  sure  to  lose.  Antony  and  Cleopatra,  11,3. 

You  have  wrestled  well  and  overthown 

More  than  your  enemies.  as  you  like  iT,i,  2. 


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P"^es.  For  his  acts 

So  much  applauded.  i  henry  vi,  ii,  2. 

With  voices  and  applause  of  every  sort. 

Titus  Andronicus,  i,  i. 

A  better  speech  was  never  spoke  before. 

Love's  Labour's  Lost,  v,  2. 

He  hath  in  this  action  outdone  his  former  deeds 

doubly.  CORIOLANUS,  ii,  I. 

Being  nimble  footed  he  hath  outrun  us. 

Two  Gentlemen  of  Verona,  v,  3. 

She  will  outstrip  all  praise, 
And  make  it  halt  behind.  tempest,  iv,  x. 

He  that  runs  fastest  gets  the  ring. 

Taming  of  the  Shrew,  i,  i. 

I  pray  you,  sir,  receive  the  money  now. 

Comedy  of  Errors,  iii,  2. 

I  'Id  wish  no  better  choice.  pericles,  v,  i. 

Troilus  is  the  better  man  of  the  two. 

Troilus  and  Cressida,  i,  2. 

So  doth  the  greater  glory  dim  the  less. 

Merchant  of  Venice,  v,  i. 

For  an  earnest  of  a  greater  honour.    Macbeth,  i,  3. 

And  choice,  being  mutual  act  of  all  our  souls, 
Makes  merit  her  election,      troilus  and  cressida,  i,  3. 

Read  and  earn  our  prize.  Tennyson,  princess,  iii. 

Right  noble  is  thy  merit.  Richard  ii,  v,  s, 


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203 


Brave  conquerors, — for  so  you  are. 

Love's  Labour's  Lost,  i,  i 

It  is  a  conquest  for  a  prince  to  boast  of 

I  Henry  IV,  i,  i 

Is  not  parchment  made  of  sheepskins  ? 

Hamlet,  v,  i 

Here  's  a  parchment  with  the  seal  of  Caesar. 

Julius  C^sar,  iii,  2, 

The  force  of  his  own  merit  makes  his  way. 

Henry  VIII,  i,  i 

Where  nature  doth  with  merit  challenge. 

Lear,  i,  i. 

He  hath  been  used 
Ever  to  conquer.  Coriolanus,  iu,  3 


Prizes. 


I  am  a  scribbled  form  drawn  with  a  pen 
Upon  a  parchment.  king  John,  v,  ^. 


Even  our  sports  are  dangers ! 
Feats  of  sanguinary  hue. 


B.  Jonson,  Underwoods. 
Cow^er,  Annus  1789. 


Miscellaneous. 


Rise  from  the  ground  like  feather'd  Mercury. 

I  Henry  IV,  iv,  i. 

Has  never  heard  the  sanguinary  yell  ? 

Covjper,  The  Task,  iii,  335. 

They  should  take  who  have  the  power, 
And  they  should  keep  who  can. 

Wordsworth,  Rob  Roy's  Grave. 

The  little  pleasure  of  the  game 

Is  from  afar  to  view  the  flight.       Prior,  To  Montague. 


To  the  last  honours  of  the  Butt  and  Bays. 

Pope,  DuNCiAD,  i,  168. 


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Miscellaneous.  Use  your  legs,  take  the  start,  run  away. 

Merchant  of  Venice,  ii,  2.    ' 

I  see  you  stand  like  greyhounds  in  the  slips, 
Straining  upon  the  start.  henry  v,  m,  i. 

Show  it  a  fair  pair  of  heels.  i  henry  iv,  ii,  4. 

Be  Mercury,  set  feathers  to  thy  heels, 
And  fly  like  thought.  king  John,  iv,  2. 

Well  run,  Thisbe.  midsummer  night's  dream,  v,  i. 

You  see  they  have  fitted  him  to  a  T. 

Boswell,  Life  of  Johnson,  viii,  9. 

Like  to  a  bowl  upon  a  subtle  ground  I  have 
tumbled  past  the  throw.  coriolanus,  v,  2. 

That  for  six  of  the  nine  acres  is  counted  the 
subtlest  bowHng  ground  in  all  Tartary. 

B.  Jonsoity  Chloridia. 

I  will  strive  with  things  impossible ; 

Yea,  get  the  better  of  them.  Julius  c^sar,  ii,  i. 

And  oar'd 
Himself  with  his  good  arms  in  lusty  stroke. 

Tempest,  ii,  i. 

Certain  issue  strokes  must  arbitrate. 

Macbeth,  v,  4.    '; 

They  shall  know  we  have  strong  arms  too. 

Coriolanus,  i,  i. 

Let  music  sound  while  he  doth  make  his  choice. 

Merchant  of  Venice,  iii,  2. 

To  know  who  hath  obtained  the  glory  of  the  day. 

I  Henry  VI,  iv,  7. 


QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS  SOJ 


Whom  right  and  wrong  Miscellaneous. 

Have  chose  as  umpire.  love's  labour's  Lost,  i,  i. 

Let  me  be  umpire  in  this  doubtful  strife. 

I  Henry  VI,  iv,  i. 

The  champions  are  prepared.  Richard  ii,  i,  3. 

There  shall  he  practise  .  .  .  tournaments. 

Two  Gentlemen  of  Verona,  i,  3. 

Let  these  have  a  day  appointed  them 

For  single  combat.  ii  henry  vi,  i,  3. 

More  remarkable  in  single  oppositions. 

Cymbeline,  iv,  I. 

He  turned  me  about  with  his  finger  and  his 
thumb,  as  one  would  set  up  a  top. 

CORIOLANUS,  iv,  5. 

Eye  to  eye  opposed 
Salutes  each  other  with  each  other's  form. 

TroiLus  and  Cressida,  iii,  3. 

You  imagine  me  too  unhurtful  an  opposite. 

Measure  for  Measure,  iii,  2. 

In  single  opposition,  hand  to  hand. 

I  Henry  IV,  i,  3. 

Both  sides  are  even.  Macbeth,  iii,  4. 


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NOTIFICATIONS,    OR    MOTTOS    FOR    PRIZES 


Whist  then,  delightful  whist,  my  theme  shall  be. 

A.  Thompson  (1791). 

When  all  were  whist.         Peeie,  honour  of  the  garter. 


Whist. 


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^^^^^'  A  clear  fire,  a  clean  hearth,  and  the  rigour  of 

the  game.        Ckarles  Lamb,  Mrs.  Battle's  Opinions  on  Whist. 

He  calls  again,  I  pray  you  answer  him. 

Measure  for  Measure,  i,  4. 

He  echoes  me.  othello,  iii,  3. 

I  were  best  not  call.     I  dare  not  call. 

Cymbeline,  iii,  6. 

Call  them  again,  my  lord,  and  accept  their  suit. 

Richard  III,  iii,  7. 
Is  't  not  your  trick  ?  Antony  and  Cleopatra,  v,  2. 

Your  strong  hand  shall  help  to  give  him  strength. 

King  John,  ii,  i. 

The  greater  throw 
May  turn  by  fortune  from  the  weaker  hand. 

Merchant  of  Venice,  ii,  i. 

Whose  weakness  married  with  thy  stronger  state 
Makes  me  with  thy  strength  to  communicate. 

Comedy  of  Errors,  ii,  2. 

I  come  to  learn  how  you  have  dealt  for  him. 

King  John,  v,  2. 

I  would  be  glad  to  receive  some  instruction 
from  my  fellow  partner,      measure  for  measure,  iv,  2. 

Shall  we  give  the  signal  ?  king  John,  ii,  i. 

*  Your  silence 

Cunning  in  dumbness,  from  my  weakness  draws 
My  very  soul  of  counsel !     troilus  and  Cressida,  iii,  2. 

Till  at  the  last  I  seem'd  his  follower,  not  partner. 

Coriolanus,  V,  6. 


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Make  signal  of  thy  hope.  11  henry  vi,  m,  3. 

There  is  expectance  here  from  both  the  sides. 

Troilus  and  Cressida,  iv,  5. 

I  affirm  against  Aristotle  that  cold  and  rain 
congregate  homogenes,  for  they  gather  together 
you  and  your  crew,  at  whist,  punch  and  claret. 

Swiftt  To  Dr.  Sheridan,  Jan.  25,  1725. 

He  plays  at  whisk  and  smokes  his  pipe  eight- 
and-forty  hours  together  sometimes. 

Fargukar,  Beaux'  Stratagem,  i,  i. 

Endeavor  to  allure  him  on  a  vernal  evening, 
when  after  a  shower  every  leaf  breathes  fragrance 
and  freshness,  to  saunter  with  you  in  the  garden, 
and  he  pleads  an  engagement  at  whist  or  the 

bottle.  Knox,  Essays,  no.  147. 

Whose  game  is  whisk,  whose  treat  a  toast  in 

sack.  Pope,  To  Miss  Blount. 

But  what  was  this  ?     A  game  at  whist. 

Hudibras,  ii  (1663). 

Talkers  are  no  good  doers.  Richard  hi,  i,  3. 

Talk  not  to  me,  for  I  '11  not  speak  a  word. 

Romeo  and  Juliet,  iii,  5. 

Lady,  wherefore  talk  you  so  ?  i  henry  vi,  v,  3. 

To  babble  and  to  talk  is  most  tolerable  and 
not  to  be  endured.  much  ado  about  nothing,  m,  3. 

Sweet,  now,  silence  !  Tempest,  Iv,  r. 


Whist 


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Miscellaneous.  ^g  there  are  three  of  us  come  on  purpose  for  the 
game,  you  won't  be  so  cantankerous  as  to  spoil 
the  party  by  sitting  out.        Sheridan,  the  rivals,  v,  3. 

But  chance  is  like  an  amberill, —  it  don't  take 

twice  to  lose  it.  Lowell,  Biglow  Papers,  il,  i. 

A  snug  and  friendly  game  at  cards. 

Cowper,  Conversation. 

Patience  and  shuffle  the  cards. 

Cervantes,  Don  Quixote,  ii,  23. 

I  was  bound  to  follow  the  suit,  sir. 

Middleton,  The  Phcenix,  ii,  3. 

I  must  complain  the  cards  are  ill-shuffled  till 
I  have  a  good  hand.  s-wi/t,  thoughts. 

Therefore  let  's  have  fresh  ones,  whate'er  we 

pay  for  them.  Pericles,  iv,  a. 

Have  I  not  here  the  best  cards  for  the  game. 
To  win  this  easy  match  ?  king  John,  v,  2. 

Bid  the  players  make  haste.  hamlet,  iii,  2. 

Soon  as  she  spreads  her  hand  th'  aerial  guard 
Descends  and  sit  on  each  important  card. 

Pope,  Rape  of  the  Lock,  iii,  32. 

A  youth  of  Frolics,  an  old  age  of  Cards. 

Pope,  Moral  Essays,  ii,  244. 

But  that  this  well-disputed  game  may  end. 

Pope,  DuNCiAD,  ii,  245. 

And  I  took  him  very  merry,  playing  at  cards 
and  much  company  with  him. 

Pepys,  Diary,  March  7,  1663. 


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With  ease,  Miscellaneous. 

Or  with  a  little  shuffling  you  may  choose. 

Hamlet,  iv,  7. 

Your  skill  shall,  like  a  star  i'  the  darkest  night, 
Stick  fiery  off  indeed.  hamlkt,  v,  ».! 

My  better  cunning  faints 

Under  his  chance.  Antony  and  Cleopatra,  u,  3. 

Consider,  sir,  the  chance  of  war :  the  day 
Was  yours  by  accident.  Cymbeline,  v,  5. ' 

What 's  Trumpes  ? 

Heywood,  Woman  Killed  with  Kindness  (1603). 

The  game  is  up.  Cymbeline,  iu,  3. 

As  sure  a  card  as  ever  won  the  set. 

Titus  Andronicus,  v,  i. 

Which,  if  not  victory,  is  yet  revenge. 

Milton,  Paradise  Lost,  ii,  105. 

They  laugh  that  win.  othello,  iv,  x. 

Be  the  players  ready  ?  hamlet,  iii,  2. 

Four  champions  fierce 
Strive  here  for  mastery.     Mutm,  paradise  lost,  ii,  898. 

Doubtless  the  pleasure  is  as  great 

Of  being  cheated  as  to  cheat.  hudibras,  ii,  3. 

We  are  swinging  round  the  circle. 

Andrew  Johnson,  1866. 

In  the  sequence  of  degree 

From  high  to  low.  Timon  of  Athens,  v,  1. 

T4 


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Miscellaneous.       Gentlemen  whose  chariots  roll  only  upon  the 
four  aces  are  apt  to  have  a  wheel  out  of  order. 

Vanbrugh,  The  Provoked  Husband,  ii. 
GOLF 

Golf.  T\\\^  before  all  the  world  do  I  prefer. 

Titus  Andronicus,  iv,  2. 

It  is  a  bewitching  and  infectious  vice. 

Sir  Walter  Raleigh,  To  His  Son,  ix. 

Marry  go  before  to  field,  he  '11  be  your  follower. 

Romeo  and  Juliet,  Hi,  i. 

Whether  you  had  not  sometime  in  your  life 
Err'd  in  this  point  which  now  you  censure  him ! 

Measure  for  Measure,  il,  i. 

Your  play  needs  no  excuse. 

Midsummer  Night's  Dream,  v,  i. 

Lest,  in  her  greatness,  by  some  mortal  stroke 

one  do  deteat  us.  Antony  and  Cleopatra,  v,  i. 

Give  him  the  cup.  hamlet,  v,  2. 

We  want  a  boy  extremely  for  this  function. 

Beaumont  and  Fletcher,  The  Coxcomb,  ii. 

Where  will  I  get  a  little  page, 

Where  will  I  get  a  caddie  ?    thistle  of  Scotland,  p.  8. 

You  may  with  a  small  cost,  purchase  the  dear 

acquaintance  of  the  boys.         Dekker,  gull's  Hornbook. 

I  have  a  bag  .  .  .  here  troubles  me ;    if  you 
will  help  me  to  bear  it. 

Merry  Wives  of  Windsor,  ii,  2. 

Fathers  that  bear  bags  shall  see  their  children 
kind  !  lear,  ii,  4. 


QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS  211 


One  only  thought  can  enter  every  head ;  ^°^^- 

The  thought  of  golf,  to  wit  —  and  that  engages 
Men  of  all  sizes,  tempers,  ranks  and  ages. 

G.  F.  Carnegie,  The  Golfiad. 

When  driving  ceases,  may  we  still  be  able 
To  play  the  shorts,  putt  and  be  comfortable ! 

G.  F.  Carnegie,  The  Golfiad. 

It  's  hardly  in  a  body's  pow'r 

To  keep  at  times,  frae  being  sour.  Bums,  To  davie. 

Nursing  her  wrath  to  keep  it  warm. 

Burns,  Tam  o'  Shanter. 

Have  patience,  gentle  Julia  ! 

Two  Gentlemen  of  Verona,  ii,  2. 

What  man  of  good  temper  would  endure  this 
tempest  of  exclamation  ?  11  henry  iv,  ii,  i. 

Don't  drive  at  a  fellow-creature,  so  long  as 
there  is  a  reasonable  chance  of  hitting  him. 

W.  E.  Norris,  The  Apotheosis  of  Golf. 

So  long  as  nature  will  bear  up  with  this  exer- 
cise, so  long  I  daily  vow  to  use  it. 

Winter's  Tale,  iii,  2. 

Why  hath  thy  queen 
Summoned  me  hither  to  this  short-grass'd  green  ? 

Tempest,  iv,  i. 

And  a'  babbled  of  green  fields.  henry  v,  ii,  3. 

The  rich  advantage  of  good  exercise. 

King  John,  iv,  2. 

Nothing  of  that  wonderful  promise  to  read  him 
by  his  form.  twelfth  night,  iii,  4. 

Deil  tak  the  hindmost,  on  they  drive. 

Burns,  To  A  Haggis. 


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^°^^-  His  English  style  and  gesture  fine. 

Burns,  The  Holy  Fair. 

The  plains  adjoining  without  bush  or  stubble, 
all  fair  green  grass. 

Sir  Walter  Raleigh,  Discovkrie  of  Guiana. 

If  the  things  enterprised  succeeded  well  the  ad- 
vice never  came  in  question ;  if  ill  .  .  .  he  then 
made  his  advantage  by  remembering  his  con- 
trary counsel. 

Sir  Walter  Raleigh,  Prerogative  of  Parliaments. 

I  '11  call  for  clubs.  i  henry  vi,  i,  3. 

Oftentimes  excusing  of  a  fault  doth  make  the 
fault  the  worse  by  the  excuse.  king  John,  iv,  2. 

Allow  me  such  exercises    as    may  become  a 

gentleman.  As  You  like  It,  i,  1. 

On  this  green  land 
Answer  your  summons.  tempest,  iv,  i. 

Wha  drudge  and  drive  thro'  wet  and  dry. 

Burns,  To  Davie. 

To  anger  them  a'  is  a  pity.  Bums,  tam  glen. 

I  see  it  driving  o'er  the  plain.  Bums,  song. 

Match  to  match  I  have  encounter'd  him. 

II  Henry  VI,  v,  2. 

Strength  matched  with  strength,  and  power  con- 
fronted power.  King  John,  ii,  2. 

Among  nine  bad,  if  one  be  good, 
There  's  yet  one  good  in  ten. 

All  's  Well  That  Ends  Well,  i,  3. 


QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS  213 

Why  should  their  liberty  than  ours  be  more  ?         ^°^^- 
Because  their  business  still  lies  out  o'  door. 

Comedy  of  Errors,  ii,  i. 

Driving  their  balls  from  whin  or  tee. 

Ramsay,  Poems,  II,  205. 

All  that  is  managed  for  ye  like  a  tee'd  ball. 

Scott,  Rbdgauntlet,  I,  302. 

How  jocund  did  they  drive.  Gray,  elegy. 

Put  in  their  hands  thy  bruising  irons  of  wrath. 

Richard  III,  v,  3. 

Through  holes  yourselves  have  made. 

Pojie,  DuNciAD,  iv. 

To  those  .  .  .  fields, 
Where  noble  fellows  strike. 

All  's  Well  That  Ends  Well,  ii,  3. 

Their  arms  are  set  like  clocks,  still  to  strike  on. 

I  Henry  VI,  i,  2. 

Strike,  brave  boys,  and  take  your  turns. 

Titus  Andronicus,  ii,  i. 

Anon  he  finds  him 
Striking  too  short.  hamlet,  ii,2. 

Put  him  quite  beside  his  patience. 

I  Henry  IV,  iii,  i. 

This  would  make  mercy  swear. 

Measure  for  Measure,  iii,  2. 

Ardent  they  grasp  the  ball-compelling  clubs. 

Thomas  Mathison,  The  Goff,  ii. 

Time-honored  Golf!  I  heard  it  whispered  once 
That  he  who  could  not  play  was  held  a  dunce 
On  old  Olympus,  when  it  teemed  with  gods. 

G.  F.  Carnegie,  The  Golfiad. 


214  QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS 


Golf.  What  subtle  hole  is  this  ?  titus  andronicus,  u,  3. 

I  train'd  thy  brethren  to  that  guileful  hole. 

Titus  Andronicus,  v,  x. 

Not  fierce  and  terrible 
Only  in  strokes.  coriolanus,  i,  4. 

So  they 
Doubly  redoubled  strokes.  Macbeth,  i,  2. 

The  most  terrible  and  nimble  stroke,    lear,  iv,  7. 

A  dangerous  driver. 

Bishop  Mountague,  Appeal  to  C^sar,  p.  80. 

The  joy,  the  danger  and  the  toil  o'erpays ; 
'T  is  exercise  and  health  and  length  of  days. 

CowJ>er,  Progress  of  Error. 

There  is  no  great  Honour  in  getting  a  Victory 
when  Odds  is  taken. 

Bailey,  Trans,  of  Colloquies  of  Erasmus,  I,  82, 

Then  shall  we  have  a  match.    I  have  letters  sent 

me 
That  set  him  high  in  fame. 

\  All  's  Well  that  Ends  Well,  v,  3. 

So  high  a  style  .  .  .  that  no  man  living  shall 
come  over  it.  much  ado  about  nothing,  v,  2. 

While  here  we  march 
Upon  the  grassy  carpet  of  this  plain. 

Richard  II,  iii,  3. 

Censure  of  manners,  when  it  exceedeth  the 
quality  of  offences,  doth  seem  rigorous  in  these 

matters.  sir  Waiter  Raleigh,  The  Cabinet  Council. 


QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS 


Good  driver !  j.  wnson,  the  projector,  \.  ^°^^' 

Speaking  much  also  is  a  sign  of  vanity ;  for  he 
that  is  lavish  in  words  is  a  niggard  in  deeds. 

Sir  Walter  Raleigh,  To  His  Son,  iv. 

The  harder  match'd,  the  greater  victory. 

Ill  Henry  VI,  v,  i. 

Turn  thy  solemness  out  o'  door,  and  go  along 

with   us.  CORIOLANUS,  i,  3. 

What  good  sport  is  out  of  town  to-day ! 

Troilus  AND  Cressida,  i,  I. 

To  the  most  wholesome  physic  of  thy  health- 

givmg  air.  Love's  Labour's  Lost,  i,  i. 

Lay  aside  life-harming  heaviness.    Richard  ii,  h,  2. 
The  hour  is  fixed ;  the  match  is  made. 

Merry  Wives  of  Windsor,  ii,  2. 

Half- won  is  match  well  made ;  match  and  well 

make  it.  '  all  's  well  that  ends  well,  iv,  3. 

Welcome,  grave  stranger,  to  our  green  retreats. 
Where  health  with  exercise  and  freedom  meets. 

Scott,  The  Poacher. 

Must  wayward  fortune's  adverse  hand 
For  ever,  ever  keep  me  here  ? 

Burns,  The  Banks  of  Nith. 

Either  a  wise  man  will  not  go  into  bunkers, 
or,  being  in,  he  will  endure  such  things  as  befall 
him  with  patience.  a.  Lang,  socrates  on  the  links. 

To  smell  a  turf  of  fresh  earth  is  wholesome  for 

the  body.  Fuller,  Holy  State. 


2l6  QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS 


Golf.  Upon  the  heat  and  flame  of  thy  distemper 

Sprinkle  cool  patience.  hamlet,  m,  4. 

Success  for  aye  to  the  guid  auld  game, 
To  the  grand  old  game  of  the  gowff. 

Thomas  Dykes,  The  Game  'mang  the  Bonnie  Green  Knowes. 

At  threescore  and  ten  we  are  "  stemied  "  men, 

And  we  've  leeved  it  every  hour, 
But  say  not  at  all  we  will  loft  our  ball 

And  hauff  the  hole  in  fower. 
Then  dormy  hame  we  can  sing  through  the  round, 

And  die  like  golfers  keen, 
We  Ve  played  fu'  weel  the  short  game  and  lang, 

The  game  on  the  golfing-green. 

Thomas  Dykes,  The  Game  'mang  the  Bonnie  Green  Knowes.    ' 

When  a  gentleman  is  disposed  to  swear  it  is 
not  for  any  standers-by  to  curtail  his  oaths. 

Cymbeline,  ii,  i. 

'T  is  the  first  time  that  ever  I  was  forc'd  to  scold. 

CORIOLANUS,  V,  6. 

An'  nen  he  showed  us  little  holes 
All  bored  there  in  the  ground. 

James  Whitcomb  Riley,  The  Doodle-Bug's  Charm. 

Till  now  amaist  on  every  knowe 

Ye  '11  find  ane  plac'd.  Bums,  To  W.  Simpson. 

Keep  me  in  temper :   I  would  not  be  mad  ! 

Lear,  i,  5. 

O  you  blessed  ministers  above 
Keep  me  in  patience !  measure  for  measure,  v,  i. 

Calmly,  good  Laertes!  HAMLET,iv,5. 

Play  on,  play  on ;  I  am  with  you  there. 

N.  P.  Willis,  Saturday  Afternoon. 


QUOTATIONS  FOR  OCCASIONS  217 

The  rapturous  charm  o'  the  bonnle  green  knowes.  ^°^^- 

Burns,  Song. 

This  trim  sward  of  velvet  green 
Were  carpet  for  the  Fairy  Queen. 

Scott,  Bridal  of  Triermain,  ii,  6. 

Now  the    god   of  this    people  is  the  Lynx, 
which  I  did  not  myself  see. 

A.  Lang,  Herodotus  in  Saint  Andrews. 

Have  you  never  seen  a  cat  wash  her  face? 
.  .  .  Just  such  a  stir  they  keep. 

Beaumont  and  Fletcher,  Tv.^  Coxcomb,!. 

I  know  you  by  the  waggling  of  your  head. 

Much  Ado,  ii,  i. 


INDEX 


Almonds,  salted,  31. 
AmiiversarieB,  29. 
Archery,  198. 
Artioliokes,  55. 
Asparagus,  54. 
AtMetics,  195. 

Ball,  masked,  20. 
Baseball,  196. 
Beef,  49. 

Bicycle  meets,  177. 
Birthdays,  29. 
Boar's  Head,  52. 
Brandy,  106. 

Cards  (mlsceUaneous),  208. 

Caviare,  31. 

Celery,  31. 

Chafing  dish  preparations,  42. 

Cheese,  67. 

Chickens,  62. 

Cigarettes,  91. 

Cigars,  86. 

Clams,  34. 

Club  dues,  194. 

Cocktails,  99. 

Coffee,  68. 

Cold  dishes,  44. 

Corn  and  beans,  55. 

Crabs,  41. 

Cucumbers,  55. 

Dance,  beginning  of,  19;  Inter- 
mission during,  25. 

Dessert,  61. 

Deviled  bones,  44. 

Dinner  menu,  beginning  of,  1; 
ending  of,  71 ;  after  ladies  go, 
74 ;  men's  dinner,  beginning  of, 
8 ;  ending  of,  74 ;  small  dinner. 


6 ;  when  something  follows,  73 ; 

without  wine,  7. 
Drinks,  iced  or  mixed,  107. 
Duck  and  onions,  53. 

Entries,  42. 

Fencing,  197. 
Fiah,  38. 

Fourth  of  July,  186. 
Frogs'  legs,  45. 
Fruit,  66. 

Game,  58. 
Games,  195. 
Golf,  210. 
Goose,  54. 

Horseradish,  32. 

Ices,  65. 

Jelly,  64. 

Ladies,  to  receive,  27 ;  when  la- 
dies depart,  84. 
Lamb,  50. 
Lemonade,  8. 
Liqueurs,  99. 
Lobsters,  40. 

Macaroni,  55. 
Marchpane,  64. 
Marrons,  64. 
Mince  pie,  64. 
Mushrooms,  55. 
Music,  16,  24,  84. 
Mutton,  50. 

Names  on  blank  page  of  menu, 
for,  78 ;  givers  of  a  dinner,  for 
list  of,  79. 


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220 


INDEX 


Olives,  33. 
Ouions,  55. 
Oysters,  34. 

Pancakes,  44. 

Pasties,  46. 

Pat6  de  foie  gras,  46. 

Peas,  green,  56. 

Pickles,  32. 

Pig,  roast,  51. 

Pork  and  heans,  46. 

Potatoes,  57. 

Prizes,  for,  199. 

Program  or  announcement,  be- 
ginning of,  14 ;  ending  of,  81 ; 
musical,  beginning  of,  16;  in- 
termission during,  24;  ending 
of,  84. 

Pudding,  64. 

Punch,  103. 

Badlshes,  33. 

Salads,  69. 
Sauces,  47. 
Shrimps,  41. 
Sorbets,  54. 
Souffles,  45. 
Soup,  36. 
Spaghetti,  57. 
Special  songs,  etc.,  25. 
Suppers,  22. 
Surprises,  47. 
Syllabubs,  etc.,  63. 


Army,  The,  131. 

Army  and  Navy,  The,  129. 

Arts,  The,  139. 

Author,  An,  122. 

Church,  The,  134. 

Clergyman,  A,  117. 

Congress,  128. 

Country,  Our,  127. 

Critics,  The,  148. 

Education,  141. 

Guest,  The,  110. 

Judiciary,  The,  155. 

Law,  The,  152. 

Literature,  144. 

Medicine,  156. 

Navy,  The,  133. 

President,  The,  128. 

Press,  The,  136. 

Public  office.  One  in,  126^ 

Reporters,  The,  139. 

Sailor,  A,  121. 

Singer,  A,  124. 

Soldier,  A,  119. 

Speaker,  Special,  169. 

Speeches,  Before,  169. 

Speeches,  After,  174. 

Stage,  The,  150. 

Woman,  158. 
Trout,  39. 
Turkey,  53. 
Turtle,  42. 

Veal,  50. 
Venison,  51. 


Tea,  afternoon,  183. 
Terrapin,  42. 
Tenuis,  195. 
Thanksgiving,  187. 
Toasts : 

Absent,  The,  167. 

Actor,  An,  124. 


Wedding   breakfast,  beginning 

of,  12 ;  ending  of,  80. 
Welsh  rabbit,  48. 
Whisky,  106. 
Whist,  205. 
Whitebait,  40. 
Wine,  etc.,  92. 


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